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From: "Paul E. Lawrence" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Back-up puzzle
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 21:01:34 -0500
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At 08:53 PM 9/4/2003 -0500, Darrell A. Martin wrote:
>Lots of systems have CD-R or CD-RW drives ("burners") as D:, including
>mine. A more important question is whether I have been completely
>oblivious to a key feature. Does TMG, any version, have the ability to
>back up *directly* to a CD-Recordable (CD-R) drive? I know if the right
>drivers (packet-writing software) are installed, you might be able to back
>up to a CD-Rewritable (CD-RW) drive, although that might not always be the
>case either.
>
>Obviously you are right about a CD-ROM drive ("CD reader"), which can only
>read files from CDs, not put files on them.
>
>So what's the scoop?

I was just trying to make sure she wasn't confusing the drives...I know the
drive letters vary on various systems but I would think that normally if
you have both the reader is D: and the burner is E:, but not
necessarily. Actually on my system the reader is E: and the burn is F:,
the D: drive is a removable (zip) drive....

I had no problems backing up from TMG4 or TMG5 directly to the CD-Burner
drive but I always use CD-RW discs...don't know if using CD-R discs would
cause problems or not....



Paul E. Lawrence


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