This was indeed a big mistake on Microsoft's part. The folks at Microsoft
thought that the (vast?) majority of hard resets are because of depleted
batteries. It's true that, mostly with novice PPC users, depleted batteries
sometimes did caus eproblems like this. With an advanced PPC user, these
cases are very rare.

However, backup/restore functionality would be needed in a LOT of other
cases - for example, with program testing.

This q BTW has been widely discussed on many PPC boards (and also in my
blog).

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Please see the Pocket PC Mag Expert Blog (including mine) at
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ - you will definitely like it.



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ActiveSync 4.1 Help states "Backing up and restoring information is
available only for Windows Mobile software for Smartphone 2003 and earlier
and Windows Mobile software for Pocket PC 2003 and earlier."

Why has this option been removed for Windows Mobile 5.0? Seems an unusual
decision...

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: Receiving access denied when trying to copy the .vol files.
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: Has anyone got a free solution, rather than having to pay for Sprite
Backup?
: Thanks.
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: "WebIS" wrote in message
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:: You'll want to grab a copy of Sprite Backup 5.1. It has an upgrade mode
:: for just this purpose. Otherwise you can look at the .vol files on the
:: root of your device, though its not recommended for you to copy/restore
:: them.
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