To answer one of your questions DVD media can hold up to 4.7GB of memory.

"mo32a" wrote:

> I am trying to backup the contents of my hardrive to a partition on the same
> hardrive. I installed ntbackup and everything was going OK following the
> wizard but then it said that I would need a diskette to store bootable info.
> I don't have a diskette drive but I do have CD/DVD rw drive. How do I get it
> to store the bootup info on a CD.
>
> Also, I only have about 5GBs of info on my 250GB drive could I back up to
> DVD (s) and if so how. How much info does a DVD hold. If I require 2 or three
> DVD's do I need to use some utility that would allow me to restore all my
> info to a reformatted HD.
>
> thanks
>
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