Backup doesn't see new drive

[JD]

I installed a CD Writer and I would like to back up to it
but when I go to My Computer and select my hard drive to
back up, it only sees the A Floppy and the D Zip drive. I
looked under Device manager, and it IS listed as
Removeable Storage.How do I get it to recognize the E CD
drive? Thanks in advance

[Jim Macklin]

You need third party software, such as Roxio Eazy CD Creator
Platinum or Nero to back up automatically to the CD.


"JD" > wrote in message
...
| I installed a CD Writer and I would like to back up to it
| but when I go to My Computer and select my hard drive to
| back up, it only sees the A Floppy and the D Zip drive. I
| looked under Device manager, and it IS listed as
| Removeable Storage.How do I get it to recognize the E CD
| drive? Thanks in advance

[JD]

I have Nero,Do I choose Data Disk or Bootable Data
disk,and after I choose the files, will it fill one CD
then ask for more?
>-----Original Message-----
>You need third party software, such as Roxio Eazy CD
Creator
>Platinum or Nero to back up automatically to the CD.
>
>
>"JD" > wrote in message
...
>| I installed a CD Writer and I would like to back up to
it
>| but when I go to My Computer and select my hard drive
to
>| back up, it only sees the A Floppy and the D Zip
drive. I
>| looked under Device manager, and it IS listed as
>| Removeable Storage.How do I get it to recognize the E
CD
>| drive? Thanks in advance
>
>
>.
>

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

WinXP's NTBackup does not recognize CD-Rs or CD-RWs as valid backup
media. By design, it will only write back-ups to tape drives or
another physical or logical hard drive. Many people back-up to a
spare hard drive, and then burn the resulting file to a CD, as a
work-around. Another option, of course, is to use a 3rd party backup
solution.


Bruce Chambers

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"JD" > wrote in message
...
> I installed a CD Writer and I would like to back up to it
> but when I go to My Computer and select my hard drive to
> back up, it only sees the A Floppy and the D Zip drive. I
> looked under Device manager, and it IS listed as
> Removeable Storage.How do I get it to recognize the E CD
> drive? Thanks in advance

[Paul]

"Bruce Chambers" > wrote in message
...
> Greetings --
>
> WinXP's NTBackup does not recognize CD-Rs or CD-RWs as valid backup
> media. By design, it will only write back-ups to tape drives or
> another physical or logical hard drive. Many people back-up to a
> spare hard drive, and then burn the resulting file to a CD, as a
> work-around. Another option, of course, is to use a 3rd party backup
> solution.
>

...such as Ghost by Symantec. It will back a disk to CD media as well as other
choices.

Paul


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