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[GLY48]

I have Easy CD Creator 4.  I find I can't backup more than 3 cdr's with the Take Two back up program.  Can I update the program from some where or do something to allow me to backup more than 3 cdr's?

OS: Windows 89SE
Acer Travelmate PIII 450Mhz
HP CD-Writer Plus M820

GLY48

[ogdens]

I have Easy CD Creator 4.  I find I can't backup more than 3 cdr's with the Take Two back up program.  Can I update the program from some where or do something to allow me to backup more than 3 cdr's?

OS: Windows 89SE
Acer Travelmate PIII 450Mhz
HP CD-Writer Plus M820

GLY48

There are no updates available for this old program. All development work on Take Two stopped when Windows XP came out.

If you are just copying files and documents then just use Make a Data CD then Data  CD Project, this way they can be opened on any computer.  

[d_deweywright]

I have Easy CD Creator 4.  I find I can't backup more than 3 cdr's with the Take Two back up program.  Can I update the program from some where or do something to allow me to backup more than 3 cdr's?

OS: Windows 89SE
Acer Travelmate PIII 450Mhz
HP CD-Writer Plus M820

GLY48

Instead of making CDs, have you tried pointing Take Two to a HD to make the backup there?  You can tell it to limit the size of the back up file(s) to say, 700MB, then you can write those to CD later.  But, this assumes you have drive space, preferably on a different physical drive than you're backing up (though T2 will manage putting the backup on the same drive if needed).

Hope that helps!

[GLY48]

To provide more details, my version of Easy CD Creator is a deluxe version 4.01.  I found possible updates on CNet:  a) Deluxe 4.02     Update 4.05.   Would any of these updates solve my T2 three cdr limit?

Thanks.

--GLY48

[d_deweywright]

To provide more details, my version of Easy CD Creator is a deluxe version 4.01.  I found possible updates on CNet:  a) Deluxe 4.02     Update 4.05.   Would any of these updates solve my T2 three cdr limit?

Thanks.

--GLY48

What happens after the third CD?  There is no inherent limit to the number of CDs in a backup that Take Two makes, so an update shouldn't "fix" anything.

[GLY48]

To provide more details, my version of Easy CD Creator is a deluxe version 4.01.  I found possible updates on CNet:  a) Deluxe 4.02     Update 4.05.   Would any of these updates solve my T2 three cdr limit?

Thanks.

--GLY48

From my experience, T2 does back up to more than  3 cdr's; I have in the past backed up to 4 cdr's.  But when I have on occassion tried to reload my hard drive with this set of 4's, T2 does not initiate reloading.  I have had no problem with T2 reloading my hard drive if I my back up set was limited to 3 cdr's.  Is there a limit to the number of cdr's T2 can back up into, particularily with Window98SE?

Thanks again
--GLY48

[d_deweywright]

From my experience, T2 does back up to more than  3 cdr's; I have in the past backed up to 4 cdr's.  But when I have on occassion tried to reload my hard drive with this set of 4's, T2 does not initiate reloading.  I have had no problem with T2 reloading my hard drive if I my back up set was limited to 3 cdr's.  Is there a limit to the number of cdr's T2 can back up into, particularily with Window98SE?

Thanks again
--GLY48

As I said before, no, there's no particular limit to the number of CDs T2 is supposed to be able to create/use.  However, over about 3 or 4, it gets pretty tedious.

Now, when you say it doesn't initiate reloading, what do you mean?  And also, how are you reloading, booting from the diskette?  Or are you just opening the backup to recover some files while in Windows?

In either case, my recollection is that it prompts for the last disc, then the first, then the last, then the first, and several iterations thereof before it does anything (start a recover, or open the backup image).  So, what do you see?  What happens?  Since we're not there to watch with you, you need to give us lots of details, every step and message.

Next question, are you letting Take Two write the CDs itself?  If so, then it's using Direct CD to do it's business, which is fine, but Direct CD can have errors during the write process.  

Could you comment on the possibility of having T2 write the image file(s) to HD first, as has been mentioned previously?  Do you have another drive you could use for that?  The backup goes much quicker.  You can also write the files to CD-R using Easy CD Creator, which is faster than letting Direct CD write the discs.

[GLY48]

[quote name='d_deweywright' date='Apr 3 2009, 02:52 PM' post='266846']
As I said before, no, there's no particular limit to the number of CDs T2 is supposed to be able to create/use.  However, over about 3 or 4, it gets pretty tedious.

Now, when you say it doesn't initiate reloading, what do you mean?  And also, how are you reloading, booting from the diskette?  Or are you just opening the backup to recover some files while in Windows?

In either case, my recollection is that it prompts for the last disc, then the first, then the last, then the first, and several iterations thereof before it does anything (start a recover, or open the backup image).  So, what do you see?  What happens?  Since we're not there to watch with you, you need to give us lots of details, every step and message.

Next question, are you letting Take Two write the CDs itself?  If so, then it's using Direct CD to do it's business, which is fine, but Direct CD can have errors during the write process.  

Could you comment on the possibility of having T2 write the image file(s) to HD first, as has been mentioned previously?  Do you have another drive you could use for that?  The backup goes much quicker.  You can also write the files to CD-R using Easy CD Creator, which is faster than letting Direct CD write the discs.



Reply:
To provide some more detail about my problem with reading my backup disks, here's what happens when I tried to read a set of 4 backup disks.  Firstly, my CD reader is a Teac CD-224E.  Next, when I reload my total hard drive, I boot from the diskette that Easy CD Creator initially requests all users to make soon after the program is run for the first time.  
After I started the computer with the diskette in A drive, system files are normally uploaded and then the message appears asking whether I want to restore my hard drive.  I chose this option (with highlight direction key and enter key).  The following message appears:

Browse for backup image, current path:
A:
C:
\\Teac CD-224E

I install the 1st disc of the set in the reader. I select, highlight, and enter my CD reader.  I hear my CD reader accelerate in speed. Then the following message appears:

Browse for backup image, current path:
Mybackup.tk2
A:
C:
\\Teac CD-224E

I then select and enter Mybackup.tk2.  Again, my CD reader accelerates in speed.  After this, the following message appears:

Please browse for the last disc of the set. Press any key to continue.

I switch discs and install the 4th (last) disc of the set into the reader.  After press a key, the following message appears:

Browse for the last volume of the set, current path: \\Teac CD-224E
A:
C:
\\Teac CD-224E

I again use the highlight direction key and then hit enter to select my CD reader.  I then hear my CD reader accelerate in speed but then it ,j/slows down. I use the highlight direction key  and hit enter a few more times but the same thing happens - the CD reader initially accelerates and then slows down a couple of more times and finally comes to a dead stop.  Uploading from the backup set is never initiated.  

It seems to me that my CD reader cannot read the 4th and last disc of my backup set.  I then try this entire procedure with another 4-disc backup set, but the same thing happens - the 4th and last disc is not read.  I came to the conclusion that T2 did not correctly and or completely burn the 4th disc.  

As mentioned in other postings, I have no problem reloading my entire hard drive from a 3-disc backup set - the 3rd disk is successfully read, the program requests to switch between reading the last disc and the first disc, back to the last disc and finally back to the first disc, upon which the upload procedure of the entire hard drive is initiated.  With several successful T2 reloads of my hard drive from 3-disc backup sets, I came to the conclusion that there is a 3 cdr limit for making complete hard drive backups, but I readily admit I could be wrong with this supposition.  However, whether creating 3-disc backups or 4-disc backups, I always let T2 write the CD itself, which means Direct CD is in charge of all the writing.  

As for backing up the image to my hard disk, this drive is only 5.57gigs and have already used up3.95gigs, leaving only 1.61gigs of free disc space.  T2 probably uses some kind of compression program, but I'm not sure if this is enough free hard disc space.  My programs take up the 3.95gigs as I copy my documents created onto cd's before performing a complete hard disc backup.    I don't have any other external storage device other than my HP CD-Writer M820.  Lately, I have been having problems with my USB flash drives also.
Finally, I have never used Easy CD Creator to write a backup set for my complete hard drive.  Is this a practical and reliable thing to do?  Does ECDC employer compression technology to archive my OS and program files onto to a reasonable number of cdr's?

Signed: Technically Challenged!
--gly48