Backup doesn't see new drive

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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
 
or left click on the storage device in device manager
then click drivers then roll back driver
 
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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Bruce Chambers said:
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.
Click to expand...

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

Paul


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