"Rock" <rock@mail.nospam.net> wrote in message
news:uG7uvCVEGHA.2320@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> phatboy wrote:
> > Hi I am trying to back up my files to a cd-r and am not sure how to
do it .I
> > can back up files to a location in my pc but cant get it on to a
disc to save
> > it.Any help would be appreciated or maybe a program that is free or
share
> > ware or something very frustrated . I lost ll my files when my hard
drive
> > went south last month thanks alot .
>
> If you are using XP's native backup program, ntbackup, know that it
> cannot natively backup to CD unless 3rd party CD writing software is
> installed, and even then can only backup to a single CD. It cannot
span
> CDs. It also cannot backup to DVD no matter what. It is geared
toward
> tape drives or other hard drives. It will work ok in backing up to an
> external hard drive (or network drive) and restoring individual files
/
> folders is ok, but if you need to restore the complete drive it's
> cumbersome. XP must be installed first. If you have XP Pro, Ntbackup
> has an ASR feature (Automated System Recovery) which makes this
restore
> of a boot/system drive easier but still it takes much longer than an
> imaging program, and I never got it to restore my system to full
> functionality as it was when the backup was made. It also mandates
that
> a floppy drive be available. One floppy disk is created in the ASR
> process and there is no way around that. ASR is not available on XP
> Home addition.
>
> One backup option is to use a drive imaging program. This makes an
> exact image of the partition which can be saved on CD/DVD or to
another
> drive - internal or external. Imaging to an external USB 2.0 /
Firewire
> drive works well. Then occasionally burning an image to DVD gives you
> redundancy. Restores can be done of the entire partition or
individual
> files / folders. These work well and make it easy to recover from a
> drive crash. Examples of this are:
>
> Norton Ghost 10
> Acronis True Image
> Terabyte Unlimited's Image for Windows
> CasperXP
>
> The second option is a traditional backup program such as Stompsoft's
> Backup My PC. This is an excellent tool. It is the evolution of
> ntbackup. There are other good backup programs out there as well.
This
> can do a complete backup or backup individual files and folders to
> DVD/CD and other drives.
>
> --
> Rock
> MS MVP Windows - Shell/User

StompSoft has "PC Backup" while Sonic/Roxio
has "Backup MyPC" -- which one were you pointing
at Rock ??
http://www.stompsoft.com/pc-backup/p...rceID=BUMP_301
http://www.sonic.com/products/Consum...C/default.aspx

mikey