Mike Fields wrote:

> "Rock" <rock@mail.nospam.net> wrote in message
> news:uG7uvCVEGHA.2320@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>
>>phatboy wrote:
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>>>Hi I am trying to back up my files to a cd-r and am not sure how to
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> do it .I
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>>>can back up files to a location in my pc but cant get it on to a
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> disc to save
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>>>it.Any help would be appreciated or maybe a program that is free or
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> share
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>>>ware or something very frustrated . I lost ll my files when my hard
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> drive
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>>>went south last month thanks alot .
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>>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
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> span
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>>CDs. It also cannot backup to DVD no matter what. It is geared
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> toward
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>>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
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> /
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>>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
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> restore
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>>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
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> that
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>>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.
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>>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
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> another
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>>drive - internal or external. Imaging to an external USB 2.0 /
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> Firewire
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>>drive works well. Then occasionally burning an image to DVD gives you
>>redundancy. Restores can be done of the entire partition or
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> individual
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>>files / folders. These work well and make it easy to recover from a
>>drive crash. Examples of this are:
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>>Norton Ghost 10
>>Acronis True Image
>>Terabyte Unlimited's Image for Windows
>>CasperXP
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>>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.
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> This
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>>can do a complete backup or backup individual files and folders to
>>DVD/CD and other drives.
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>>--
>>Rock
>>MS MVP Windows - Shell/User
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>
> 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
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> mikey
>

IIRC before both StompSoft and Sonic's offering had the same names.
Looks like StompSoft changed the name. I will change my response on
this. Thanks.

--
Rock
MS MVP Windows - Shell/User