Back -up problem on Windows XP (Home Edition)

[Li Li]

Hi Everyone!
I want to backup everything on my computer to the CD-R/W.
So I did click Start, click All Programs, click
Accessories, click System Tools, and then click Backup,
but after I browsed location D:/ for the place to save my
backup, it says: The backup file name could not be
used. "D:\Backup.bkf", Please ensure it is a valid path,
and that you sufficient access.

Anyone can tell me how to make to path to my D drive?

Thank you in advance for you help!

 

[purplehaz]

The xp backup tool does not do a good job, if it works at all, of backing up
directly to cd. It's best to backup to your hard drive and then burn it to
the cd. Also if you want to backup the entire drive the file will most
likely not fit on one cd, so you need a program that will burn cd's and span
multiple cd's. XP backup and burning program will not do this. An image
program would be best to use if backing up the whole c drive.

 

[John Colombo]

XP's Backup program will only backup to; removable media
(Iomega Zip drive)- to a share on another computer
(Network Drive)or to a Tape Backup dive.

The suggestion from Purplehaz seems to be your only
option - you can create and save a job in your cd burning
software and run it whenever you want to perform a backup

 

[Peter Hutchison]

Hi Everyone!
I want to backup everything on my computer to the CD-R/W.
So I did click Start, click All Programs, click
Accessories, click System Tools, and then click Backup,
but after I browsed location D:/ for the place to save my
backup, it says: The backup file name could not be
used. "D:\Backup.bkf", Please ensure it is a valid path,
and that you sufficient access.

Anyone can tell me how to make to path to my D drive?

Id D: is a hard disk partition, then make sure you have enough space.

If D: is a CDRW, then the Backup program CANNOT write direct to CDRW,
you must backup to Hard Disk first THEN burn the Backup.bkf file to CD
afterwards.
Backup is designed to work with tape drives and to disk NOT CD.

Peter Hutchison
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