Win2K Backup to CD-R/RW

[Guest]

I was surprised to find that Win2K Backup Utility will not backup to a CD-R/RW. Something lame like it thinks that it is "read only". Microsoft says the fix is to backup to a file and burn the file - yeah, so you have to have enough room on your hard disk for your regular stuff plus the backup file. The alternative is to buy a third party utility that can do the backup, but Nero 6 upgrade (upgrading from Nero Express which came with my CD burner) is $65. Does anyone know of a way to do a real backup (straight to the CD burner) either by tricking Win2K or with shareware or an inexpensive alternative? Thanks.

 

[Gerry Voras]

NTBAckup can't do it, because it doesn't know that CDRW's are RW (natively,
they are just R's).

Pay the money for Nero (which can be obtained for much less than $65) or
Ghost or something like that.

I was surprised to find that Win2K Backup Utility will not backup to a

CD-R/RW. Something lame like it thinks that it is "read only". Microsoft
says the fix is to backup to a file and burn the file - yeah, so you have to
have enough room on your hard disk for your regular stuff plus the backup
file. The alternative is to buy a third party utility that can do the
backup, but Nero 6 upgrade (upgrading from Nero Express which came with my
CD burner) is $65. Does anyone know of a way to do a real backup (straight
to the CD burner) either by tricking Win2K or with shareware or an
inexpensive alternative? Thanks.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I was surprised to find that Win2K Backup Utility will not backup to a

CD-R/RW. Something lame like it thinks that it is "read only". Microsoft
says the fix is to backup to a file and burn the file - yeah, so you have to
have enough room on your hard disk for your regular stuff plus the backup
file. The alternative is to buy a third party utility that can do the
backup, but Nero 6 upgrade (upgrading from Nero Express which came with my
CD burner) is $65. Does anyone know of a way to do a real backup (straight
to the CD burner) either by tricking Win2K or with shareware or an
inexpensive alternative? Thanks.

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I'm not sure what type of CD burner you bought, and where,
but here in Australia we pay A$55.00 for a CD burner with
Nero software and Nero In-CD included. It would do everything
you want. That's about US$42!