CD-R's and the Backup Utility

[Nathan Sokalski]

I was trying to backup my hard drive using the Backup Utility. When it asked
me where I wanted to back it up, it did not give me my CD-RW drive as an
option, the only available option was my 3.5 floppy. I had a new, unused
CD-R disc in my CD-RW drive, and I know the drive works because I have
written to CD-R's with it before. Is the Backup Utility not capable of
writing to CD-R's? I find it hard to believe that the Backup Utility is
incapable of using a CD-RW drive considering the amount of data that gets
backed up. If anyone can help me with this issue, I would greatly appreciate
it. Thank You.
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Nathan Sokalski

[Chris Lanier]

Hi, Very true.

"Windows Backup Does Not Back Up to CD-R, CD-RW, or DVD-R Devices"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315255&Product=winxp
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Chris Lanier
"Nathan Sokalski" > wrote in message
...
> I was trying to backup my hard drive using the Backup Utility. When it
asked
> me where I wanted to back it up, it did not give me my CD-RW drive as an
> option, the only available option was my 3.5 floppy. I had a new, unused
> CD-R disc in my CD-RW drive, and I know the drive works because I have
> written to CD-R's with it before. Is the Backup Utility not capable of
> writing to CD-R's? I find it hard to believe that the Backup Utility is
> incapable of using a CD-RW drive considering the amount of data that gets
> backed up. If anyone can help me with this issue, I would greatly
appreciate
> it. Thank You.
> --
> Nathan Sokalski
>
>
>

[Alex Nichol]

Nathan Sokalski wrote:

>I was trying to backup my hard drive using the Backup Utility. When it asked
>me where I wanted to back it up, it did not give me my CD-RW drive as an
>option, the only available option was my 3.5 floppy. I had a new, unused
>CD-R disc in my CD-RW drive, and I know the drive works because I have
>written to CD-R's with it before. Is the Backup Utility not capable of
>writing to CD-R's?

The inbuilt burning is not a CD-RW method ('packet writing' ) that
allows files to be written to it by programs. You would have to have a
third party package - InCD from Nero or Drag to Disk from Roxio, and use
CD-RW media. And at that the inbuilt NTBackup would not work - it is
tape oriented and does not recognise other removable media (apart from
floppies)


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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)

[Bob Wilcox]

"Nathan Sokalski" > wrote in message
...
> I was trying to backup my hard drive using the Backup Utility. When it
asked
> me where I wanted to back it up, it did not give me my CD-RW drive as an
> option, the only available option was my 3.5 floppy. I had a new, unused
> CD-R disc in my CD-RW drive, and I know the drive works because I have
> written to CD-R's with it before. Is the Backup Utility not capable of
> writing to CD-R's? I find it hard to believe that the Backup Utility is
> incapable of using a CD-RW drive considering the amount of data that gets
> backed up. If anyone can help me with this issue, I would greatly
appreciate
> it. Thank You.
> --
> Nathan Sokalski
>

Someone suggested on one of these newsgroups to select the CD click Browse
when selecting the
backup device. Browse to:

C:\Documents and Settings\[your name]\Application Data\Microsoft\CD Burning

I tried it and it seems to work.