back up disc problem........

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Hello there. My father has XP Pro and I have been trying to do a back up
disc for his system. However it will only letme transfer to the floppy
drive and not dvd/cd drives. Cannot seem to find a way around it....Any
ideas anyone??
 
imx123 said:
Hello there. My father has XP Pro and I have been trying to
do a back up disc for his system. However it will only letme
transfer to the floppy drive and not dvd/cd drives. Cannot
seem to find a way around it....Any ideas anyone??
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If you are using the Backup program supplied with Windows
you'll have to save your backup files to the hard drive and
burn them to a CD later.

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

It may be just as easy to use an installed CD burning program
to backup your Dad's files to CD's.

Good luck

Nepatsfan
 
what backup program are you using?
What do you mean transfer?
Are you trying to backup straight to the cd/dvd drive?
If you are using Windows NTBackup, now get this..you cannot backup directly
to a cd/dvd drive. You first have to backup to your hard drive, THEN copy
to your cd/dvd/ drive. Unless you want to backup to about 100 floppies, :)
 
Ntbackup.exe is very happy backing up to optical media, as long as you have
"packet writing" software installed.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Ntbackup.exe is very happy backing up to optical media, as long as you have
"packet writing" software installed.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Richard Urban said:
Ntbackup.exe is very happy backing up to optical media, as long as you
have "packet writing" software installed.
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I learn something new nearly every day. I'll have to try that..
Jim
 
I've found that it's not good enough just to have "packet
writing" software, C:\Windows\System32\dla\tfswctrl.exe must be
running in the background. Disable it in msconfig or delete the
registry entry and it won't work. The only way I know of to
restore the registry key is to reinstall Sonic Record Now.

Of course, I could be wrong!

Nepatsfan
 
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