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.

"R" wrote in message
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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.
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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

You trying to backup to the external HDD -- a drive connected to another machine? You're actually trying to write to the other machine; that's why it's prompting for an id and password. Plug the external drive into the system you're backing up. You won't get any extra prompts, then.


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Well... I was hoping that I didn't have to carry around the external drive
between the computers. So there is no way doing as I want to?

"WAW8" wrote in message ...
You trying to backup to the external HDD -- a drive connected to another
machine? You're actually trying to write to the other machine; that's why
it's prompting for an id and password. Plug the external drive into the
system you're backing up. You won't get any extra prompts, then.


Post Originated from http://www.VistaForums.com Vista Support Forums

On Tue, 13 May 2008 15:11:56 -0400, "R" 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...-together.html

--
Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP 2005-2007 [Windows - Networking]
http://networking.nitecruzr.net/

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]" wrote in message
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On Tue, 13 May 2008 15:11:56 -0400, "R" 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...-together.html

--
Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP 2005-2007 [Windows - Networking]
http://networking.nitecruzr.net/