The destination box in the BackUp program is continually
dimmed and will not
allow a user to back up files to CD's in the Aopen CD-RW
drive. I have systematically isolated every program that
has any connection to the CD-RW on an individual basis and
cannot find a conflict. I have removed all older or
extraneous program folders associated with removable
drives. I have updated all the firmware and software
associated with the drive and Windows. I have checked to
make sure user access rights and permissions are in order.
The Aopen CD-RW 4850 is present in the physical locations
folder of the Windows 2000 Removable Media component. It
appears as if it is an operating system issue. I'm hoping
someone can suggest a possible solution(s). Thank
you.

Yep sure can.

Windows does not support doing a backup to a cd device.
You would have to have some kind of third party software
that supports this type of operation. or
direct your backup to a hd partition and then burn the
file to cd. also not directly support by windows and yep,
you guessed it, you will need a third party piece of
software to support this action as well...



>-----Original Message-----
>The destination box in the BackUp program is continually
>dimmed and will not
>allow a user to back up files to CD's in the Aopen CD-RW
>drive. I have systematically isolated every program that
>has any connection to the CD-RW on an individual basis
and
>cannot find a conflict. I have removed all older or
>extraneous program folders associated with removable
>drives. I have updated all the firmware and software
>associated with the drive and Windows. I have checked to
>make sure user access rights and permissions are in
order.
>The Aopen CD-RW 4850 is present in the physical locations
>folder of the Windows 2000 Removable Media component. It
>appears as if it is an operating system issue. I'm hoping
>someone can suggest a possible solution(s). Thank
>you.
>
>.
>

Ntbackup cannot back up to a CD-R.

Although you can write data to a recordable CD, it's not really implemented
as a read/write filesystem in the operating system. Since there's no
interface to write to the CD as though it's a filesystem, ntbackup can't get
there.

Roxio's DirectCD may be a suitable solution. I've not used the product, but
I understand it's designed to mount a CD-R and present that as a read/write
disk to the operating system. There may be other products on the market that
do the same thing.

-Matt

"Mark F." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:07fe01c3c053$44008850$(E-Mail Removed)...
> The destination box in the BackUp program is continually
> dimmed and will not
> allow a user to back up files to CD's in the Aopen CD-RW
> drive. I have systematically isolated every program that
> has any connection to the CD-RW on an individual basis and
> cannot find a conflict. I have removed all older or
> extraneous program folders associated with removable
> drives. I have updated all the firmware and software
> associated with the drive and Windows. I have checked to
> make sure user access rights and permissions are in order.
> The Aopen CD-RW 4850 is present in the physical locations
> folder of the Windows 2000 Removable Media component. It
> appears as if it is an operating system issue. I'm hoping
> someone can suggest a possible solution(s). Thank
> you.
>

"Matthew Mucker [MSFT]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Roxio's DirectCD may be a suitable solution. I've not used the product,
but
> I understand it's designed to mount a CD-R and present that as a
read/write
> disk to the operating system.

They changed name in last version (6). Now it is "Drag-to-disk".