Recently purchased a Samsung netbook.It came with Windows 7 starter edition.
WHen I tried to set up a backup to save a disk image to my network it said that this facility was not available in the starter edition and I would have to go to Windows 7 pro to get it.
I have three other PCs on my network and I regularly save disk images to my NAS.
How can I get my netbook to do the same?
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AskWoody_MVPMay 20, 2011 at 1:11 pm #1280246Looks like you need to get a upgrade to Home or better.
DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
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MemberJune 5, 2011 at 4:37 pm #1281932Netbooks are for browsing and writing emails or watching a movie while on the road. Nothing else.
There’s a reason why they’re so cheap, after all.It may not cost you a lot more to buy a laptop sporting Windows 7 Professional than buying and installing it on your netbook. Then you can sell your netbook. There you should not have many performance issues if you can stop yourself from installing too many programs.
you have to upgrade to at least the Windows 7 Professional edition in order to backup to a network drive with Windows Backup.
I doubt your netbook will support it but you still may want to check using the upgrade advisor
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