files for recovery diskette could not be created

I am trying to make a recovery cd for my windows xp home version. I went to
system tools, back up, advanced, selected the location for the backup file
but then got a message that says "files for recovery diskette could not be
created. The operations was aborted." Now what do i do? I just want some
backup of the windoes xp operating files incase my haddrive fails and I have
to install a new harddrive. I have only the xp upgrade cd and not the full
version so if it fails now i am out of luck. Any suggestions?

On Nov 10, 4:13*pm, mrcapi937 <mrcapi...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> I am trying to make a recovery cd for my windows xp home version. I went to
> system tools, back up, advanced, selected the location for the backup file
> but then got a message that says "files for recovery diskette could not be
> created. The operations was aborted." Now what do i do? I just want some
> backup of the windoes xp operating files incase my haddrive fails and I have
> to install a new harddrive. I have only the xp upgrade cd and not the full
> version so if it fails now i am out of luck. Any suggestions?

XP's built-in backup software can not create a full backup that can
restore a working XP to a hard drive. Look of different softwares.

XP has no built in ability to create a recovery CD, you need to look into
some drive imaging software such as that from Acronis.

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"mrcapi937" <mrcapi937@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BA27944D-F088-45A6-8F12-7746F15E793B@microsoft.com...
>I am trying to make a recovery cd for my windows xp home version. I went to
> system tools, back up, advanced, selected the location for the backup file
> but then got a message that says "files for recovery diskette could not be
> created. The operations was aborted." Now what do i do? I just want some
> backup of the windoes xp operating files incase my haddrive fails and I
> have
> to install a new harddrive. I have only the xp upgrade cd and not the full
> version so if it fails now i am out of luck. Any suggestions?