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From: "Paul E. Lawrence" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Back-up puzzle
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 23:17:40 -0500
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At 09:51 PM 9/4/2003 -0500, Darrell A. Martin wrote:
>I have Roxio DirectCD ver. 5.10 loaded and running on my PC, which has a
>CD-RW drive. Neither TMG 4.0d nor TMG 5.09 are the least bit successful in
>backing up to a blank CD-R disc. It may be technically possible to prepare
>a CD-R disc in a CD-RW drive (leaving it "open") so an application program
>can write directly to it, but my impression is either that it is not
>possible, or that it creates discs that cannot be read by anything but a
>CD-RW drive.

You can on my drive...in fact the free CD that came with the system was a
CD-R, I initially started out using it for tmg backkups, this was Dec
2001-Jan 2002 but switched to the CD-RW discs....I can't remember for sure
whether I was backing up directly to the disc or backing up to hard drive
and then drag and dropping....tried to test but the one CD-R disc I have
appears to be damage

> The geekish distinction is between UDF 1.5 and ISO 9660 formats.
>
>I am *not* talking about backing up first to a hard drive, and then
>dragging and dropping the resulting file to a CD. That is a different
>situation entirely, and its success will depend on the hardware and
>software that one has installed.

Paul E. Lawrence


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