Hi I had an illegal copy of XP Pro. I decided to do the right thing and bought XP home. Before formatting the C drive i backed up all my files using the accessory in XP pro creating one backup file in my removable hard drive. Unfortunately XP home seems to use a different way of retreiving old files and doesn't recognise my file. Anyway around this?

Install Backup on Windows XP Home Edition

Users of XP Home Edition that have tried to back up their systems may have been surprised to find that the Backup utility is not included in the default installation of Windows XP Home Edition. No Backup icon is present on the Start menu in Windows XP Home Edition, nor is Backup listed in Add Remove Programs for Windows XP Home edition. No mention of the utility is made anywhere during the installation, but it is included with Windows XP Home Edition. It's just necessary to do a manual install to prepare it for use.

To Manually Install the Backup Utility

> Insert the CD Rom and navigate to: CD-ROM Drive:\VALUEADD\MSFT\NTBACKUP

> Double-click the Ntbackup.msi file to start the wizard that installs Backup

> When the wizard is complete, click Finish.


source

http://www.theeldergeek.com/backup_f...me_edition.htm

Worked like a charm. Cheers!

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