CD backup

[seanmark2]

I am tryng to backup a Quicken file on a CD and I can't seem to make it work. I presently have the file backed up on a floppy but the file is getting too large and I want to backup to CD. When I do this, my drive is "E" , it says 'E" is unaccessable." Can anyone help.
Seanmark

[Quidam]

Is the drive accessible with a known-good CD in it?

Perhaps the blank CD is bad. Can you try another?

[seanmark2]

I tried a different CD but I get " Unable to write to drive "E". I tried both CD-R and CD-RW. Any other suggestions.
Seanmark

[VHockey86]

Do you use nero as burning software?
If so you could just install the InCD program, which formats a rewriteable CD such that it functions like a floppy or hard drive, u can just save a file to it from a program like normal and it will automatically burn it for you in the background.

[John Prophet]

yeah, Im pretty sure quicken doesnt write straight to a cdrw..usually you have to just write to a folder on your hard drive..then use Nero (or whatever) to write to cd.

I havent worked much with InCD...or Roxios "DirectCD"..what I remember from a couple years back is that DirectCD used to seem to cause problems.

JP

[duffyone]

If you have roxio ez cd creator it will also allow you to format cd and use as if it were a floppy or hard drive.

[Quidam]

Yes, with ROXIO, it's called DirectCD. It takes 30-40 minutes to format the CD-RW, but then it acts like another drive that you can drag-n-drop to and from.

[John Prophet]

BUT, if you go ahead and format a cd with roxio or nero..will an app like quicken (or even windows backup) just go ahead and write to the formatted cd?? It would be cool if it would. Except I dont trust the formatted cd's to last, lol....one of my rare fairly smart comp customers was using a formatted cd like that to save a bunch of his stuff...one day the cd just decided it was unreadable, lol.

I guess thats the sad thing about backup...you almost need TWO backups to make sure you have a backup.
JP

[Quidam]

WINXP back-up will write to a DirectCD. I have a daily scheduled task that does just that.

I use MS Money (not Quicken). It backs up only to a hard drive or floppy. I let it back up to the hard drive, and then have that file copied to the CD-RW. That might be the only alternative in Quicken also.

I hoe that counts as two back ups because the loss of years of financial data would be a disaster. (Note to self: Make more copies of back ups.)

[seanmark2]

I do have Easy CD Creator and that worked fine ..Thanks for all the good suggestions.
Seanmark