System back-up help required

[Gerald Greenfield]

I am trying to back-up my entire hard drive on a Windows
XP Professional system to a DVD/CD external drive.Having
gone through most of the back-up wizard,I come to the
window that chooses the destination,and having entered
E:\(My DVD burner) I go to next box asking "Type name for
this back-up". Now everything I type in as a name
produces a "Back-up Utility Box" saying "The back-up file
name could not be used. Please ensure it is a valid path
and you have sufficient access. I've tried names-dates &
a combination of both with same results. SOME KIND PERSON
PLEASE HELP.

[Chris Lanier]

Windows XP's Backup doesnt support backup to CD/DVD's. You need to purchase
a third party program to do this.

Norton Ghost
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/

"Gerald Greenfield" > wrote in message
...
> I am trying to back-up my entire hard drive on a Windows
> XP Professional system to a DVD/CD external drive.Having
> gone through most of the back-up wizard,I come to the
> window that chooses the destination,and having entered
> E:\(My DVD burner) I go to next box asking "Type name for
> this back-up". Now everything I type in as a name
> produces a "Back-up Utility Box" saying "The back-up file
> name could not be used. Please ensure it is a valid path
> and you have sufficient access. I've tried names-dates &
> a combination of both with same results. SOME KIND PERSON
> PLEASE HELP.

[Gerald Greenfield]

Thanks for reply Chris. I forgot to mention I am having
the same type error message using "ACRONIS TRUEIMAGE
DELUXE" program. does this not support CDs.
either? -Original Message-----
>Windows XP's Backup doesnt support backup to CD/DVD's.
You need to purchase
>a third party program to do this.
>
>Norton Ghost
>http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/
>
>"Gerald Greenfield" > wrote in message
...
>> I am trying to back-up my entire hard drive on a
Windows
>> XP Professional system to a DVD/CD external
drive.Having
>> gone through most of the back-up wizard,I come to the
>> window that chooses the destination,and having entered
>> E:\(My DVD burner) I go to next box asking "Type name
for
>> this back-up". Now everything I type in as a name
>> produces a "Back-up Utility Box" saying "The back-up
file
>> name could not be used. Please ensure it is a valid
path
>> and you have sufficient access. I've tried names-dates
&
>> a combination of both with same results. SOME KIND
PERSON
>> PLEASE HELP.
>
>
>.
>

[Larry Maietta]

Gerald:
Personally, when I backed up to DVD+RW, I left the name blank, and the
program wrote its own name. Back-up disk 1, back up disk 2, etc.
I hope this helps.
--
Sincerely
Larry Maietta

"Gerald Greenfield" > wrote in message
...
> Thanks for reply Chris. I forgot to mention I am having
> the same type error message using "ACRONIS TRUEIMAGE
> DELUXE" program. does this not support CDs.
> either? -Original Message-----
> >Windows XP's Backup doesnt support backup to CD/DVD's.
> You need to purchase
> >a third party program to do this.
> >
> >Norton Ghost
> >http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/
> >
> >"Gerald Greenfield" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> I am trying to back-up my entire hard drive on a
> Windows
> >> XP Professional system to a DVD/CD external
> drive.Having
> >> gone through most of the back-up wizard,I come to the
> >> window that chooses the destination,and having entered
> >> E:\(My DVD burner) I go to next box asking "Type name
> for
> >> this back-up". Now everything I type in as a name
> >> produces a "Back-up Utility Box" saying "The back-up
> file
> >> name could not be used. Please ensure it is a valid
> path
> >> and you have sufficient access. I've tried names-dates
> &
> >> a combination of both with same results. SOME KIND
> PERSON
> >> PLEASE HELP.
> >
> >
> >.
> >

[Sharon F]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 12:30:50 -0700, Gerald Greenfield wrote:

> Thanks for reply Chris. I forgot to mention I am having
> the same type error message using "ACRONIS TRUEIMAGE
> DELUXE" program. does this not support CDs.
> either? -Original Message-----
>>Windows XP's Backup doesnt support backup to CD/DVD's.
> You need to purchase
>>a third party program to do this.
>>
>>Norton Ghost
>>http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/
>>
>>"Gerald Greenfield" > wrote in message
...
>>> I am trying to back-up my entire hard drive on a
> Windows
>>> XP Professional system to a DVD/CD external
> drive.Having
>>> gone through most of the back-up wizard,I come to the
>>> window that chooses the destination,and having entered
>>> E:\(My DVD burner) I go to next box asking "Type name
> for
>>> this back-up". Now everything I type in as a name
>>> produces a "Back-up Utility Box" saying "The back-up
> file
>>> name could not be used. Please ensure it is a valid
> path
>>> and you have sufficient access. I've tried names-dates
> &
>>> a combination of both with same results. SOME KIND
> PERSON
>>> PLEASE HELP.
>>
>>
>>.
>>

I worked my way through many trial versions before I found a backup program
that had the feature set I wanted AND worked with my burner. Some were
quite happy to write directly to disk. Others needed to be parked on the
hard drive first and burned to disk later.

Question (and sorry if it's off base - I'm tired) : When it asked for a
drive, you just typed in E: didn't you? You didn't type in E:\(My DVD
burner)?

--
Sharon F
MS-MVP - Windows XP Shell/User