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I am trying to backup my computer?

It is asking me for a floppy disc. I was thinking I could use a CD but it won't let me do that. Is there a way of using a CD or do I need floppy discs? I didn't even know they still made floppy discs....I am using Windows XP.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    There are a few good ways to do it. One way is to use the tools that XP has with it called NTback, Well I think I spelled it right anyway. It will backup you stuff to CD's or floppy's. I prefer Norton Ghost, and there are a few others out there that will make a mirror image of you hard drive and spread them out along cd's, DVDs or a network image. Contact me for help and I'll give you info and help on doing so.

    Good Luck

  • 1 decade ago

    There is a setting on the windows xp that lets you use part of your hard drive for backup, but i would either install another hard drive into your computer completely or use a external hard drive and copy them to the external hard drive

  • 1 decade ago

    i think floppy disk like 1.3mb or something...yea thats very small size..

    and CD was like less than GB, maybe 700 maybe..DVD 4gb or 8gb...

    so the thing is, how much do u wanna save?? just use pen drive or External HDD...

    or else to save ur money i recommend u go buy a new Internal HDD..at least its cheaper than external one...

    dont worry, even student can afford it..

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Best I've found is Dropbox. You can set it up in less than 5 minutes, and

    best of all it's free. You can sign up at: http://tinyurl.com/freeddropbox

    and you get extra space.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Yes they still make floppy disks lol. I suggest buying an external hardrive - maybe 250GB - 1 Terabyte (1,000GB). I have a Western Digital external harddrive of 500GB which I use for backup and there's plenty of room on it - about equal to my PC's storage.

    The company I have --> http://www.westerndigital.com/en/

    Others:

    1. http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/category.aspx?c...

    2. http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&q=HP+external...

    How to backup files w/out external hard drive: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/mai...

    I gave a link for Dell & HP external hard drive also since idk wat type of computer you have.

    I believe the computer can backup to the external harddrive. I know MAC can but I'm not sure about Windows.

    Source(s): myself - google search haha
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