backup utility for winXP home

[agentuk]

I want to install the windows backup utility in winXP home edition but my PC did not come with the winXP CD so I can not do the recommended manual install that is posted all over the web. Instead my PC came with 6 system recovery CD's. Is it possible to get the backup utility installed with these?!? My PC is an HP pavilion notebook. Is there anyone out there that has found a way around this?

[sirace1]

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If you have Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition, you will easily be able to find the Backup Utility by clicking Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Backup. However, if you are using Windows XP Home Edition, your search for a backup utility under System Tools will be fruitless. Although Microsoft originally planned to include the Backup Utility in the Home Edition as well as the Professional Edition, they removed it, for reasons known to themselves, from the final version that you can buy today.

While this may be a frustrating development for many, fear not! You, as a reader of the About.com Focus on Windows site, are one of The Elite, The Astute, and you will be shown the secret necessary to be able to install and use the same Backup Utility that is available to XP Professional users. Hidden deep in the recesses of the Windows XP Home Edition CD lies the actual installation program that you need to put the Backup Utility on your computer. Simply insert the XP CD, and run NTBACKUP.MSI (it might look like just "Ntbackup") program from the folder D:\Valueadd\msft\ntbackup where D: is the letter of your CD drive. This will launch the Windows Backup Utility Installation Wizard, which will install the utility automatically. When it is finished, click "Finish." It's that easy!

Now you can click Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Backup, and the Backup Utility will start. One of the things that you may note is the presence of the Automated System Recovery Wizard which was mentioned in Part 1 of this feature. While you can try to use this Wizard with the Home Edition of XP, the results can be unpredictable, and the disks created with this Wizard in XP Home are unreliable. Microsoft notes and acknowledges this in KB Article Q302700.

[curtybob]

there you go, try searching all 6 disks for "NTBACKUP.MSI", but without the "s.

[s7p9a2m4]

If that fails use a freeware program which will most likely be more reliable anyways. There are many.

http://www.snapfiles.com/downloadfin...ackup&action=s

[agentuk]

After searching throught all the recovery discs I managed to find the backup utility and install it. cheers for all the suggestions and help.