How to back-up normal user data with Windows Backup

How to back-up normal user data with Windows Backup
The backup drive can be any removable media, a folder on the drive, a second hard drive, a network drive, or an external USB or Network-Attached Storage (NAS) device as long as it has sufficient capacity to contain all of the data. If using removable media, multiple disks may be required. An estimate of the number of required disks should be displayed. Windows Backup does NOT support archiving directly to an optical disk drive. To make a backup to optical media, save the archive on a network or other secondary storage device and then use your regular software to burn the data folder and application to the recordable media.

=> Run Windows Backup on the source system. To do this:

a) Click Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Backup

b) Close any running programs (especially email!) and click "Next"

c) Select "Back up files and settings" and click "Next"

d) Select what to Back Up and click "Next":

- My documents and settings.
This only backs up the default user's Documents, Favorites, Desktop, and Cookies. It will not include additional files or folders. Files and Settings Wizard is a better choice unless the user needs to be able to selectively restore specific files..
- Everyone's documents and settings. This choice works well for a system with multiple users where there are no additional files or folders that need to be included. Depending on the type and amount of data in the different user folders, the backup archive may exceed standard optical disk capacities.
- All information on this computer. This creates a complete archive of the computer files, and can easily exceed the capacity of a standard DVD or other optical media. Since the archive file does not automatically split into several smaller files, you have no way to span multiple disks.
- Let me choose what to back up. This would be the best choice when there are multiple users of the system or there are additional files or folders that need to be archived. This solution is also best if large amounts of data need to be archived because they can be broken into multiple archives by running the backup for each user or group of files.

e) In the Items to Back Up list, select the files and folders to archive. To archive most of the normal files, favorites, and desktop, add a check mark to the following:

 C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
 C:\Documents and Settings\
 C:\Windows\Profiles (contains legacy user profiles and Outlook Express data.)
 Select any other folders that contain files requested for backup

f) Click "Next"

g) Select the backup destination and name. The destination can be any removable media such as floppy disk or USB flash drive, a folder on the local drive, or a network drive that has sufficient capacity to hold the final archive. If using removable media, Windows Backup will prompt to insert new media as needed.

h) Click "Next"

i) Click "Finish" to start the archive process.

j) Click "Close" to exit the program.

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Make a Windows Backup and Restore CD, DVD, or archive folder.
To do this:

a) In My Computer, open the folder \Windows\System32.

Locate the file "ntbackup.exe"

b) Copy the program file to the same location as selected when you ran the Wizard to archive the files.

c) To create a recordable CD using Windows built-in burning feature:

- Insert a blank CD-R disk in the optical drive
- Select the data folder created by the Backup program and any additional files you copied.
- Right-click, select Send To from the context menu, select the CD-ROM drive from the list.
- Click on the notification balloon "You have files waiting to be written to the CD" and follow the prompts to burn the files.