Jim said:
My OS is XP-Pro and my Office is 2003 SB Edition. I am not able to backup my
Outlook even though I downloaded MS Backup for Outlook. It either cannot
locate my Drive E (CD R/W Drive) or it cannot the file. Help.
Also, once I get a backup then can I take it with me when I travel and avail
myself of my Contacts and Calender on another computer ?
Outlook and add-ins are NOT a disc burning program. It's still an e-mail
client. You will need to use CD/DVD burning software to copy the .pst file
to the recordable/rewritable media.
So what CD/DVD burning software do you have installed on your host? There
are free programs available. Use the backup program to save a copy of your
..pst file. Then whenever you want, use the CD/DVD burning software to copy
that onto an optical disc.
Windows XP has a rudimentary CD burning function. In Start -> Help and
Support menu, search on "cd burn". Pick the topic labeled "Copy files and
folders to CD". This is a manual process. Outlook or an add-in to it won't
go directly to the recordable CD. There are more capable and free CD/DVD
burning programs available (e.g., CDburnerXP, Ashampoo Burning Studio 2010).
Some payware CD/DVD burning programs come with a UDF writer. This makes the
CD/DVD disc look like a big floppy diskette so you can write directly to it
from within an application when you save a file. However, I always
recommend against the current selections of UDF writers, like Nero's InCD
and Roxio's DirectCD, because they almost always cause problems. Better to
just have the backup program in Outlook save a copy of the .pst file to
somewhere on your hard drive and then later use CD/DVD burning software to
put it on a recordable/rewritable CD/DVD disc.
