Backup to CR-RW/

[epp]

I would like to backup my hard drive to CD-RW media.&nbsp;&nbsp;Can it be done, and, if it can, how?<br><br>My hard drive is 20GB.

 

[Karl Blessing]

you cannot back up the entire harddrive to the CDrom, thats for sure, but it might be possible to use some compression utility to span the harddrive over several CDrom using some professional backup tool, perhaps creating an image, and compressing it of your harddrive, then spliting it between CDs, unless you have a Tape drive, or another harddrive to mirror upon, this would take a while, and if you mess up one CD chances are you might have to start over, also if you dont have enough free space on the harddrive to even create each CD, My recomendation is to take what you need, zip it up(or whatever method of compression you prefer) And stick it on CDs that way, of course organization is always a good thing to keep in mind., one costly option would be to buy a DVD-Ram (same concept as CDrw, only a DVD-ram can burn at the minimum 5Gigs on a single CD/Cartridge). <br><br>Good Luck, further questions about anything I've mentioned dont hesitate to ask. <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

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[Guest_imported]

you cam use an adaptec utitiy to do this if you e-mail me iwill give you name (it spans disks if your drive is bigger than 650 meg) sorry about the spelling <A HREF="mailto:t_dodgson@yahoo.com">t_dodgson@yahoo.com</A>

 

[fenris]

Does your drive contain the operating system? If it does then why would you want to back up the entire drive. The only thing that can not be reinstalled from the original disks is the data that you created like word and excel files. If you decide to back up the entire drive then you will be wasting a lot of space.<br><br>I save all my documents and important stuff into a single directroy (that is properly organized) such as &quot;My documents&quot; from there you pretty much have everything that is of importance to backup. You may also want to back up the registry and files that are important in starting your machine.<br><br> <p> fenris<br><a href=mailto:fenris@hotmail.com>fenris@hotmail.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br> I am interested in Mining Software, as well as Genetic Algorithms.