Please I can't find any backup program in my windows xp.

so, how can I backup my data? and even when I backup using Norton online

and try to restore my backup it would not restore my files. There is therefore no backup program
I can find and even restore program does not work. What should I do?

If you are running XP Home, XP Backup utility does not automatically get installed - you have to install it yourself.

If you're using a Norton/Symantec product and operations of backup/restore fails, you should probably take with them.

There are also problems with the Norton/Symantec product and XP System Restore feature.

For example, if you use Norton/Symantec products, you will see a message like this:
Restoration incomplete. Your computer cannot be restored...
It is also a popular Symantec problem (well, I'll be polite and call an "undocumented feature"...), they wrote an article about it:
According to what you use for malware protection, you may need to disable the product temporarily, do the system restore and then turn the products light up again when the system restore is complete.
Sometimes you need start your system in Mode safe and so that your protection programs are not running, and then do the system restore.  Tips from Microsoft in some of their articles that if the system restore does not restore your computer, start in Safe Mode, and then run the system restore.  It works for some configurations.

Here's how to install the XP Backup program if you use XP Home:

The backup program is automatically installed on XP Professional, but not on XP Home. If you have the genuine bootable XP Home installation CD, insert it into your system and navigate to this folder:

\ValueAdd\MSFT\NTBACKUP

Double-click the Ntbackup.msi file to start the installation.

Here is a nice article from Microsoft which tell you all this:

http://support.Microsoft.com/?kbid=302894

Here is another article that explains how to:

http://www.winxptutor.com/Ntbackup.htm

If you don't have an installation CD and need to download the Ntbackup.msi file, here is the link:
http://www.winxptutor.com/Ntbackup.htm

It's too bad that we don't know anything about your system.  It is because the MS Answers forum does not prompt for information when a new question is asked.  Thank you MS Answers, allowing the resolution of simple problems as frustrating and a lot of time as possible.

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