In Disk Utility, select the Restore tab again.<BR><BR>10. Drag your windows backup volume to the Source field, and your new XP volume (mine was called NO NAME) to the Destination field.

Then select Backup. Told you it was easy! For information on how to use Microsoft's Backup, see the company's Windows XP Backup Made Easy.

In the next month or two I'm going to be doing an upgrade on our file server to Server 2008, and I'd like to be able to back up an XP laptop to it on a regular basis. Sounds easy? Well, I have a ...

What you've found out is that Windows 7 doesn't support the Windows XP NTBackup format. Regular file system files are compatible between the two operating systems, but an XP backup file format is not.