Thanks for the suggestion Madeline Internet Explorer v6 is the browser I'm using. I did visit the Microsoft site and found that "ASR does not function and is not supported on Windows XP Home edition". I tried by following their possible solution of selecting the "advanced" option when calling up the Ntbackup but it still doesn't work. I should point out that the backup will work on "my folder" but will not save the system data to a floppy. Can you recommend a good freebie backup tool? Curtis.