Destination Option 3, 3rd-party program, not as expected
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 11:40 pm
Hi Barry!
I have been merrily using AISBackup for a few months without much trouble, given that my Win98 and external HP 8230e CD-RW drive don’t always get along.
Recently I added a new 60 Gb hard drive and added Windows XP Pro (OEM) at the same time. I thought I could use the CD write utility that comes with XP by choosing, from the AISBackup “Script Set-up” screen, the destination option, “3. A CD using a third party CD Mastering Program.” I expected this to write the backup to my hard drive so that I could copy the files manually to CD with the Windows utility. Instead, AISBackup started to copy directly to the CD drive, apparently (to me) using the AISBackup CD write utility.
Trying to be clever, I then chose Option 4 instead to back up to my hard drive. All well and good, except how, in that case, can you change the AISBackup log to reflect the fact that the files were later moved to a CD?
Not that I have much against the AISBackup write utility, except it seems to do best at 2x (or at least that is what I found under Win98) and I maintain it ought to be able to do 4x, so I wanted to try other approaches to see what might be fastest, all things considered.
(Foolishly, when I first installed XP I tried installing my old HP/Roxio Adaptec before I found out XP does not support it. Then I downloaded HP’s more recent replacements: HP DLA and stripped-down RecordNow (Veritas). I had these working for awhile – well, I didn’t test DLA except to drag and drop a single file, but RecordNow worked fine to write a disk at a time. But XP kept showing an error message about having to disable the Adaptec drivers, so in editing my registry to get rid of them (per Microsoft’s website instructions), I managed to get the HP software to quit working, too. I suppose I’ll get them working eventually…)
I have been merrily using AISBackup for a few months without much trouble, given that my Win98 and external HP 8230e CD-RW drive don’t always get along.
Recently I added a new 60 Gb hard drive and added Windows XP Pro (OEM) at the same time. I thought I could use the CD write utility that comes with XP by choosing, from the AISBackup “Script Set-up” screen, the destination option, “3. A CD using a third party CD Mastering Program.” I expected this to write the backup to my hard drive so that I could copy the files manually to CD with the Windows utility. Instead, AISBackup started to copy directly to the CD drive, apparently (to me) using the AISBackup CD write utility.
Trying to be clever, I then chose Option 4 instead to back up to my hard drive. All well and good, except how, in that case, can you change the AISBackup log to reflect the fact that the files were later moved to a CD?
Not that I have much against the AISBackup write utility, except it seems to do best at 2x (or at least that is what I found under Win98) and I maintain it ought to be able to do 4x, so I wanted to try other approaches to see what might be fastest, all things considered.
(Foolishly, when I first installed XP I tried installing my old HP/Roxio Adaptec before I found out XP does not support it. Then I downloaded HP’s more recent replacements: HP DLA and stripped-down RecordNow (Veritas). I had these working for awhile – well, I didn’t test DLA except to drag and drop a single file, but RecordNow worked fine to write a disk at a time. But XP kept showing an error message about having to disable the Adaptec drivers, so in editing my registry to get rid of them (per Microsoft’s website instructions), I managed to get the HP software to quit working, too. I suppose I’ll get them working eventually…)