I was just this evening trying to figure out how to back up the new Dell. Apparently backup is not an option anymore in the non professional version of Windows XP and the "help" section on this says "Back up your stuff to a cd with a "back up" program for that media" (I paraphrased that). So basically you need to get a back up program. I found one at Symante.com called Ghost that is 70 dollars, or Drive Image 7 which is also 70 bucks. Supposedly they just keep asking you to put in the next CD when you Ghost your data. You'll have to check it out personally to validate that. I decided just to back up my own on some Zip disks and CD's in sections.
If you are using XP Home Edition Microsoft Backup is not installed by default. You can install it using the procedure
here. However, it does not span CDs so to do a backup to CD you have to write the backup to the hard disk then copy it to CDs.
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If you are using XP Home Edition Microsoft Backup is not installed by default. You can install it using the procedure here. However, it does not span CDs so to do a backup to CD you have to write the backup to the hard disk then copy it to CDs.