From: tim.wnosp@mtavirgin.net   
      
   I used a free 'easeus' backup frogram for years to make data and system   
   backups to an external hard drive I bought for the purpose. Last week I   
   discovered I had inadvertently deleted some files so I went to try to   
   recover them from my extensive backups. Easeus would not open even one   
   of the backup files it had made. It seems I was wasting my time - and   
   those backups were really slow too.   
      
   I turned to MS Backup in System tools and it won't write a file big   
   enough to be useful - is it a 4Gb limit? I could backup onto 20 DVDRs   
   with that if I wanted to but I don't. I want a nice simple way of   
   backing up all my data before the Hard drive fails on the old machine   
   and if it helps me recover from system failure then that's good too but   
   the data is really important. If I have to set it running and go to bed   
   that is fine, as long as it actually works.   
      
   At the moment I have no backup of anything. I don't want to spend the   
   time going through the whole drive copying individual folders all day.   
   How do I back up my data from XP? How can it be so difficult?   
      
   Tim W   
      
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