usb flash drive not a valid backup location for system image

Try this:

• create a directory on your USB drive
• right-click the directory and choose "Share with", "Specific people"
• choose yourself from the list of users and click Share and Done
• in the "Create System Image" menu choose "On a network location"
• now enter the URL for your share (\your-computer\sharename)
• enter your username and password and click OK

Good luck.

/Claus

Edit: what I copy and pasted to network share is D:\folder\folder_with_backup\desktop-comp_name\backup

I have also copied the back up to my computer. It couldn’t find that, and when I typed the path into network share, the “OK” is still grayed out

So this worked for me to create the back up, but now I am having trouble restoring the back up from the control pannel. I am at the page where it says select location and I can’t get it to come up. I copy and pasted the location from the address bar by finding it in files. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

• That is not a valid answer there are plenty of usb drive big enough for system image

Plants and Zombie,

                              Good to hear, maybe if many more people went for the alternatives instead of microsofts then perhaps they would change,but only if it hit their pocket! Will try open office myself,have similar problems myself with "office"

A very early post mentioned using 3rd party backup but I have yet to find anything which works.   I save and back up all my personal files to thumbdrives and refuse to store them on my inboard drive, anyway.  Really just looking for backup for the system and program files to avoid having to reload from scratch and go through all the various updates.  From the string of previous posts, it seems that's a futile hope.  In fact, after years of my Office EXCEL degrading with each new "free" upgrade to the point where it no longer works, and based on my refusal to send Microsoft money for a newer version which has lots of bells, whistles, and snooper features which I don't even want, I have begun using OpenOffice instead.  Maybe the Free Software Foundation will come up with a backup program for system software, too...

Sorry John, I cannot help you in this regard. I have not yet recovered from the shock of losing just about everything. Fortunately, my email is backed up on Gmail so can at least find my old mails. I am just letting it do it' s own thing for now. Thanks anyway, I will investigate SSD for my machine.