EV>I read something the other day about an option I could select in the   
   EV>XP BACKUP Program that in an emergency could restore Everything if I   
   EV>had made the BACKUP with that setting.   
      
   EV>I can't remember now what the setting was and didn't see anything in   
   EV>BACKUP's Advanced settings that reminded me of what I had read the   
   EV>other day while I was reading Windows Help and Support.   
      
   EV>It took 6 tries to BACKUP my C: HDD before I could figure out how to   
   EV>get BACKUP to work.   
      
   EV>It failed the first time because I wanted to use a FAT32 HDD to save   
   EV>it on and it wanted NTFS, so it quit with an Error after it had   
   EV>written 4GBs of the BACKUP.   
      
   EV>When I figured out how it works, it First wants to take time to COUNT   
   EV>all of the files before writing the Backup and then about 15 minutes   
   EV>later starts writing them to the exteral drive I chose to save it on.   
      
   EV>I figured out to use the selection to Choose what I wanted in the   
   EV>BACKUP instead of selecting the All Files setting which hadn't seemed   
   EV>to work for me.   
      
   EV>When I was trying to figure out what I was doing wrong after one of   
   EV>my failures, I read about something called SYSTEM STATE, but when I   
   EV>tried selecting that once and the BACKUP failed again, so when I   
   EV>did get the BACKUP to work I didn't select the SYSTEM STATE option.   
      
   EV>I am glad the folks in this Windows XP echo introduced me to Acronis   
   EV>True Image a long time ago.   
      
   EV>A 330GB External HDD was the first HDD I bought for making BACKUPs.   
      
   EV>It came Formatted for FAT32 and I've kept it that way in case I ever   
   EV>have a need to move more data that what a DVD or Thumbdrive could   
   EV>have on them, and the data was going to be put on a older computer   
   EV>which had a FAT32 HDD in it.   
      
   EV>My last try was a Failure too.   
   EV>The Log shows a bunch of files wasn't copied.   
      
   EV>I tried at least, but I will stay with TI for my BACKUPs for now.   
      
   Welcome to the World of Microslime Crapware. Only do 1/2 of a job and   
   not even that very well.   
      
   There are several FREEWARE programs that will do most of what TI will   
   do. I have EaseUS Todo Backup but the free version wil not make a   
   bootable CD so you cannot do a boot disk Image file but must do a   
   clone..   
      
   On the Fat 32 vs NTFS I transfer files back and forth between the two   
   (Hard dis land Thumbdrive)with no problems at all except Fat 32 is   
   limited to a 4 Gig individual file size.   
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