System Backup 2010 question

I bought this for a friend and intended to backup his minimal sized XP Home PC with it. The installation went fine but I ran into a slight glitch. It will not backup to his FAT 32 OCZ 16 GB USB flash drive. According to System Backup, it is not a valid disc for backups. So, for now, I had to use the hidden partition method included with the program. But this is not the best solution as it leaves the backups on the same drive as his Windows installation.

Why would System Backup care whether the drive is portable or not? If it's a working FAT drive that is large enough to hold the data, what is the issue? Is there any way around this? If not, this should be heavily noted on the website that flash drives are not supported.

I am very disappointed!

 

Hi Han ,

Sorry it isn't doing what you hoped.

If you look here - it does state it will automatically backup to a backup capsule on an internal HD, or to an External HD. It doesn't say Flash Drives.

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/systembackup/

You might see if you can select a backup location, select the partition to backup, and do it that way:




Otherwise, you could try B&R10 Free as Tommy suggests , below.

 

Thanks for posting. I did see those illustrations and notes. But I have used flash drives with other imaging apps (including the Windows PE recovery disc environment from Paragon Drive Backup 10 Pro) without issue. So I thought this would work too.

I will try formating the OCZ flash drive as NTFS and see if that makes any difference...

 

You can try Backup & Recovery 10 Free Edition here:

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/db-express/index.html

Have you tried formatting the Flash Drive as NTFS, that might make a difference. Otherwise BR10 Free will be able to backup to the flash drive no problem.

 

I found this tool http://www.pendriveapps.com/lexar-usb-flip-the-removable-media-bit-tool/ that can usually change a removable drive to a non-removable. I tried it on the OCZ drive and it worked. So I think I'm good now. I just wish System Backup would support flash drives natively (since much larger flash drives are now available.)

 

Thanks for the tip, Han.

Glad it worked out for you.