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

[imx123]

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??

 

[Nepatsfan]

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??

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

 

[lvee]

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,

 

[Richard Urban]

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]

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!

 

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[Jim]

Ntbackup.exe is very happy backing up to optical media, as long as you
have "packet writing" software installed.

I learn something new nearly every day. I'll have to try that..
Jim

 

[Steve]

http://www.firestreamer.com/fsrm/ allows NTBackup to write DVDs

 

[Nepatsfan]

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

 

[imx123]

All,
Problem now resolved, many thanks for your input.
Cheers , imx123.