Does anyone have any answers?

Does anyone know of a good backup program that will copy to a CDR or CDRW, run in XP and is free? XP Home does not come with a resident backup program (can we all ask the Microsoft voodoo daddys and mommas - WHY?) in the initial install. Yes, I know it is on the XP Home CD under VALUEADD, but this is a HP computer that came with no OS disk; you know, the ones that have the operating system resident on the computer (can we all ask the HP voodoo kings and queens - WHY?!?!?) Or can the backup function be installed from the onboard software? If so, will it backup to a CDR or CDRW? Sheesh! This should be an easy fix! Hello? Is there anyone out there? In the words of that great late night philosopher Dave Letterman, "Hep me! Hep me!"

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