Okay, just got Microsoft XP Home on both my laptop and my desktop, but now that I am officially sick of the recurring microsoft problems and crashes, etc, and don't have the $ for an apple, I need to makea backup of both my desktop and my laptop. How can I do this?

I got nero, but that backup doesn't seem to be a bootable in fact i dont think its a good oen at all.... and it didn't even work on my desktop just hte laptop.

Soooo what should I do, hopefuly withOUT spending money!

Consider NTBackup - it's built into windows and has a complete recovery feature:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/s...t_03july14.mspx

thanks m8 im all over it, i luv this forum

I like to just make disk images of the system partition, and copy important files to DVDs and online servers. It's old but it works.