Eddie. The back up program is designed to back up your system onto a
compatible media source that can gold it. A cd-rw can hold 700 megs
which is far less then your hard drive. The back up program will see
this as an error and will terminate the back up as you have learned. You
can not change this but you can get around it. The best thing to do of
course is to get a second hard drive that is the same size if not bigger
then the HD you have. You can then back up your hard drive on a daily,
weekly, or what ever interval you want basis. To copy your hard rive to
cd-rw you need to copy all the files on your hd manually and not use the
back up feature you have been trying to use. Just keep copying files
until the cd-rw is full then switch out to another cd-rw and continuing
copying until all your hd is copied.

Mick

Edwin Montanez wrote:

>Hi listers,
>
>I am looking for suggestions or help with the problem that I am having.  I
>am trying to backup my hard drive into cd-rw.  I am using the backup
>software that came with my win xp home addition, but when the CD gets full,
>the program gives me an error saying something like the media is full,
>backup terminated or something like that.  I have looked in the help menu
>and the different settings so that I can tell the program that it should use
>multiple media to perform the backup but I have not been able to find it.
>if anybody has any suggestions or has a good backup software which is speech
>friendly and does not cost an arm and a leg, I would love to hear from you.
>Thanks.
>Eddie
>
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