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Skriven 2004-12-01 04:01:00 av CHARLES ANGELICH (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JIM HOLSONBACK
Ärende: DVD Drive Data backup?
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Hello Jim - 

JH> Hello, ALL. 

JH> Anyone here regularly using DVD +/-R or +/-RW discs for
JH> data backup and restoration of HDD contents? 

Not yet but I've been trying to. 

JH> If so, please tell about your satisfaction with it, and
JH> what software you are using. BIR, my SIL told me they use
JH> Roxio where he works, and that NERO has probs with nested
JH> subdirectories. This would be the full version, not the one
JH> which comes with drives sold at retail. 

My brother bought Roxio Platinum v5 or v6 (can't recall) and it
wouldn't install on his W98SE machine so I tried putting it on
my W2K machine - that was a mistake. Installing Roxio took out
my C: partition and I had to recover using image copies I had
burned to CDs (fortunately). I scanned support.microsoft.com
and found pages warning that Roxio would do this with
instructions as to how to uninstall it manually. Not good. The
software sits at my brother's house unused on _any_ machine as
yet. :-\ 

My brother purchased Symantec's backup software a month ago for
his newer machine running XP Home. Turns out it wasn't tested
for his DVD burner and it won't 'see' the burner when it drops
to DOS. Yup, the DVD burner has to be accessible from DOS to do
the backups. :-\ 

The experience has me discouraged about the usefulness of DVD
burners in general. Seems the rest of the industry has some
catching up to do. 

JH> I do have a SONY DVD R/RW+/- drive here, but have not yet
JH> started using it. I went by the local Office Depot today,
JH> and found spindles of 50 DVD-R discs on closeout at $5 -
JH> which is only a dime a disc, so I bought both of the two
JH> spindles they had set out. 

JH> Thanks in advance for any information or advice. - - - JimH. 

Not sure any of my experiences are helpful but it's a
'direction' to go in for further research? 

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