How to make a backup CD? Looks like it was a simple thing.

I have Windows XP home (laptop) version: 5.1.2600 service Pack 3.0
x 86 family 6 model stepping 8 (whatever that means)
I am backing up my computer comlete on a CD.

Your entire computer will not fit on a CD and there is has nothing built-in to Windows XP to make such support.

My suggestion, go buy a cheap USB external hard drive (Seagate preference with backup software) and can back up your system.  For less than $ 100, you can get 2 + TB of space these days.

If you want something even simpler, it will cost a little more, but something like a Seagate Replica makes life easy.

With regard to burning files to a CD - you can drag/drop CD to your CD burner in Explorer and save important things (for you).  Each CD will hold about 700 MB of data.  Your installation of Windows XP probably takes about 4500 to 9000 MB of space. ;-)  If you can write to DVDs, that might help, but you would need a third-party program in Windows XP to do this too.

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