Re: Backup toCD
From: *Vanguard* (no-email_at_post-reply-in-newsgroup.invalid)
Date: 03/10/04
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:18:30 -0600
"The Unknown P" said in
news:49CEE47B-4821-4692-9D1D-17CF14188D75@microsoft.com:
> Well according to the other responses you get I am doing something in
> XP that simply can't be done. I don't have any disk writing software
> like Nero or Roxio or anything. I have a simple XP HE OS. All I have
> to do is put a blank CD\R or CD\RW in the drive and then find the
> file I want and right click on it and then click send to and click on
> the drive with the disk in it and then a box will come up telling me
> the files are ready to be written to CD. A small Icon will be
> displayed in the system tray (where your clock is in the lower right)
> double click on that to open the window showing the files ready to be
> written and they will be shown with an arrow pointing down on them
> and you click file in the top left and then write these files to CD.
> But then this can't be done in XP. Or so they say. I have been doing
> it since I got the OS 2-1\2 + yrs ago. But not knowing that I can't
> do this is probably the reason I can. Explain that one MVP's. and no
> I do not have any third party software of any kind for CD writing. NO
> no no. Just XP HE. Thankyou very much. Good luck.
You are quite correct. You are NOT using UDF but then UDF is *not* the
only method for writing to the CD media. Windows XP comes with
minimally functional CD burning support, like a very lite version of
Nero or EasyCD. And just like you say, you need to save the exported or
generated file onto the hard drive and THEN you can copy it over to the
CD. You even noted that operation in your statement "... then a box
will come up telling me the files are ready to be written to CD".
Microsoft is notorious for slapping on crippled or minimized version of
software. They don't write the NT Backup program, either (I think it's
Veritas), nor did they write the Disk Cleanup utility (a crippled but
safer version of CleanSweep). Microsoft doesn't like to reveal the true
developer of those water-downed versions that they include under the
guise of them enhancing their operating system. You really think every
file that gets into some version of Windows actually came from
Microsoft? You must also think Microsoft writes all those drivers to
support hardware.
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