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Having been the victim of a hard drive crash recently, I want to do a
complete backup onto cd's....but in the path when I get to where I want to
store the backup, my cd drive (D)is not shown as any of the choices listed.
I have a 3 1/2 floppy, a zip, and a dvd drive. I have a blank cd in the
drive.

How can I do the backup onto cd's?

Thanks
 
rogeepete said:
Having been the victim of a hard drive crash recently, I want to do a
complete backup onto cd's....but in the path when I get to where I
want to store the backup, my cd drive (D)is not shown as any of the
choices listed. I have a 3 1/2 floppy, a zip, and a dvd drive. I
have a blank cd in the drive.

How can I do the backup onto cd's?
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You didn't mention which program you used. Ntbackup doesn't allow for
backing up to CDs or DVDs. Either get an external hard drive or use a
program that will allow you to back up to CDs or DVDs.

Acronis True Image has lots of fans. If you're looking for something
free, have a look at:

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2007/PL2007SYSTEMUTILITIES.php#5.00BackupFiles
 
I'm running Win XPPro, and following their instructions for the back up...I
says I can back up to my floppy or my zip but there is no cd drive listed as
an option.
 
Re read the reply, I quote "Ntbackup doesn't allow for backing up to CDs or
DVDs", you'll have to use 3rd party software to back up to CD/DVD

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At risk of multiposting, when you say NT Backup, etc....are you saying Win
XP? I'm not running Win NT
 
rogeepete said:
At risk of multiposting, when you say NT Backup, etc....are you saying Win
XP? I'm not running Win NT
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Yes, you are. Vista is another version of NT as well.

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rogeepete said:
Having been the victim of a hard drive crash recently, I want to do a
complete backup onto cd's....but in the path when I get to where I
want to store the backup, my cd drive (D)is not shown as any of the
choices listed. I have a 3 1/2 floppy, a zip, and a dvd drive. I
have a blank cd in the drive.

How can I do the backup onto cd's?
Click to expand...

Assuming you have an 80Gig drive that's half full. Further assume the backup
can achieve 50% compression (on average). This means the backup will need
20Gigs of backup media.

Since a CD can hold, oh, 650Megs, you'll need about 31 CDs. At eight minutes
apiece, four hours to complete the backup.

Now you COULD replace the CD-drive with a DVD drive. DVDs hold upwards of 4
Gbytes. That means you'll only need five DVDs, and, at 25 minutes apiece,
you should be done in an a little over two hours.

Of course if you have 80Gigs worth of stuff to back up, you'll need to
double the above estimates.
 
=?Utf-8?B?cm9nZWVwZXRl?= said:
Having been the victim of a hard drive crash recently, I want to do a
complete backup onto cd's....but in the path when I get to where I want to
store the backup, my cd drive (D)is not shown as any of the choices listed.
I have a 3 1/2 floppy, a zip, and a dvd drive. I have a blank cd in the
drive.
Click to expand...

Backups of your most important directories is the most important, NOT a
backup of your entire drive. Do backups of your most important data on
several forms of media. Heck, I just got a few 2 gig USB sticks for $15
each.
 
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