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From: R on 13 May 2008 15:11 My equipment: Laptop connected wireless to a router. Desktop connected to same router with Ethernet cable. Seagate external HDD, connected to the desktop with a USB 2 connection. I'm trying to use Vista Backup & Restore to backup the laptop to the external HDD. When I try to set it up, the program finds the disk alright. But then it asks for a user & password. What user & password? I tried with all the PW's and users I have on the two computers, but nothing works. I can't get by this so I'm stuck here, please help! Roger PS. On the desktop it runs just great.
From: Chuck [MVP] on 13 May 2008 18:03 On Tue, 13 May 2008 15:11:56 -0400, "R" <someone(a)myspace.now> wrote: >My equipment: >Laptop connected wireless to a router. >Desktop connected to same router with Ethernet cable. >Seagate external HDD, connected to the desktop with a USB 2 connection. > >I'm trying to use Vista Backup & Restore to backup the laptop to the >external HDD. >When I try to set it up, the program finds the disk alright. But then it >asks for a user & password. What user & password? I tried with all the PW's >and users I have on the two computers, but nothing works. I can't get by >this so I'm stuck here, please help! > >Roger > >PS. On the desktop it runs just great. Do you have file sharing working between the 2 computers, in general? Start there - see if you can get a folder on the desktop computer accessible from the laptop computer. All HDDs aren't network ready. And Vista has its own challenges with network access. <http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2006/12/windows-xp-and-vista-on-lan-together.html> http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2006/12/windows-xp-and-vista-on-lan-together.html -- Cheers, Chuck, MS-MVP 2005-2007 [Windows - Networking] http://networking.nitecruzr.net/
From: Don Phillipson on 13 May 2008 15:17 "R" <someone(a)myspace.now> wrote in message news:A79AC71B-F2E5-4A6B-A4DB-812CEB147024(a)microsoft.com... > My equipment: > Laptop connected wireless to a router. > Desktop connected to same router with Ethernet cable. > Seagate external HDD, connected to the desktop with a USB 2 connection. > > I'm trying to use Vista Backup & Restore to backup the laptop to the > external HDD. > When I try to set it up, the program finds the disk alright. But then it > asks for a user & password. What user & password? I tried with all the PW's > and users I have on the two computers, but nothing works. I can't get by > this so I'm stuck here, please help! Is the app not asking you to create a new password for this backup alone ? Beware multiposting. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
From: R on 13 May 2008 20:36 Oooops! Now it's working! The backup is running. What I did was I tried my old desktop username (I changed some time ago). Does that mean that the old username is left there somewhere in my desktop. I thought it was enough to change it trough "Control Panel > User Accounts. "Chuck [MVP]" <none(a)example.net> wrote in message news:114k245kc3uf3bij9h3tl6kajipijbjmk5(a)4ax.com... > On Tue, 13 May 2008 15:11:56 -0400, "R" <someone(a)myspace.now> wrote: > >>My equipment: >>Laptop connected wireless to a router. >>Desktop connected to same router with Ethernet cable. >>Seagate external HDD, connected to the desktop with a USB 2 connection. >> >>I'm trying to use Vista Backup & Restore to backup the laptop to the >>external HDD. >>When I try to set it up, the program finds the disk alright. But then it >>asks for a user & password. What user & password? I tried with all the >>PW's >>and users I have on the two computers, but nothing works. I can't get by >>this so I'm stuck here, please help! >> >>Roger >> >>PS. On the desktop it runs just great. > > Do you have file sharing working between the 2 computers, in general? > Start > there - see if you can get a folder on the desktop computer accessible > from the > laptop computer. All HDDs aren't network ready. And Vista has its own > challenges with network access. > <http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2006/12/windows-xp-and-vista-on-lan-together.html> > http://networking.nitecruzr.net/2006/12/windows-xp-and-vista-on-lan-together.html > > -- > Cheers, > Chuck, MS-MVP 2005-2007 [Windows - Networking] > http://networking.nitecruzr.net/
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