Re: Backup toCD
From: Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\) (user_at_#notme.com)
Date: 03/10/04
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:06:33 -0800
Terrific, Margi, good luck.
-- Michael Solomon MS-MVP Windows Shell/User Backup is a PC User's Best Friend DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/ <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:a68901c406eb$33828710$a301280a@phx.gbl... > Horray! It worked > Thank you all again > Margie >>-----Original Message----- >>You're welcome, good luck, Margie. >> >>-- >>Michael Solomon MS-MVP >>Windows Shell/User >>Backup is a PC User's Best Friend >>DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/ >> >>"Margie" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in > message >>news:9e9f01c40645$984008e0$a501280a@phx.gbl... >>> Thank you all. I will check out InCD on my NERO disk. It >>> seems as if a re-install might be just what I need. >>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>"Margie" said in news:99dd01c4060b$63851710 >>> $a301280a@phx.gbl: >>>>> Please be patient with a newbe to XP-Pro >>>>> I want to back up my Quick Books data to a CD >>>>> Someone said that I can do it using XP. >>>>> Someone else said that I need a third party program > like >>>>> NERO. >>>>> Can I burn my data to a CD using XP Pro? >>>>> If so,how? >>>>> Thanks >>>> >>>>Unless you get a UDF (universal data format) writer >>> utility to provide >>>>packet writing to the CD-RW media (it must be rewritable >>> to allow >>>>updating the table of contents), like InCD from Ahead's >>> Nero or DirectCD >>>>from Roxio's EasyCD (which run as installable file >>> systems), you will >>>>need to perform the Quickbooks backup to a path on your >>> hard drive and >>>>then use CD burning software (Nero, EasyCD, etc.) to > then >>> copy that file >>>>from the hard drive onto CD-R[W] media. >>>> >>>>The UDF writer IFS (installable file system), like InCD >>> or DirectCD, let >>>>you use a CD-RW disc like a big floppy. However, you >>> might find that a >>>>UDF-written CD is only readable on your host or a select >>> few. Although >>>>UDF is a standard packet writing protocol, different >>> formats may be used >>>>in laying down the file onto the rewritable media. > Also, >>> although I >>>>haven't tried the latest version of each, when trailing >>> the prior >>>>versions of InCD and DirectCD they were found far too >>> flaky and severely >>>>reduced reliability of the system; i.e., you might start >>> getting lots of >>>>BSODs (blue screens of death). These products worm > their >>> way in at the >>>>kernel level of the operating system since they load as >>> an installable >>>>file system. So far both Ahead and Roxio (Adaptec) have >>> proven inexpert >>>>at writing file systems. On every host that had InCD or >>> DirectCD >>>>installed, they had to get uninstalled to eliminate >>> sporadic crashes on >>>>them. >>>> >>>>. >>>> >> >> >>. >>
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