Yes. Right after Windows xp is loaded. Or, I suppose you could make a boot
cd just for this purpose. But the norm is to load xp and then restore your
backup I think.

-Frank

"flip" <flip@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> If I use windows xp to backup my files and reformat will I still be able
> to
> applie that back