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Windows XP Backup to a CD Burner

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by cmando

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Can you run Windows XP Backup and burn to a cd as a backup device? Microsoft Support site says you can't and it doesn't work and says that the burner isn't accessable. Is there a way around this as the beauty of the cd burner is that you can backup large amounts of data

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by thechas

Microsoft does not support backup to a CD, as it would take up to 95 CDs to backup a full 60GB hard drive.

You will need to get 3rd party backup software that supports using CDs as a backup media.

CAUTION: Don't use CD-RW disks as a primarybackup media. They are not archival.
They may be acceptable for daily incremental backups as long as you rotate several sets.

Here are some sources for backup software that supports CD drives.

http://www2.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cbu4.htm
http://www.willowsoft4.com/backup/
http://tinyurl.com/4jbe
http://www.backup4all.com/index.html

Chas

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