Yes. Writing to CD and DVD discs is supported as long as you have some packet writing software installed on your computer. It usually comes bundled as a part of larger CD / DVD recording software packages and makes your CD or DVD drive act as a standard, transparently write-enabled drive. Packet writing software uses UDF-formatted CD and DVD discs, and allows GRBackPro to write to your CD / DVD drive by treating it like a hard disk or a floppy diskette, using the regular drive letter.

This is an optical drive that will write both DVDs (Digital Versatile Disk, Data or Video) and CDs. The LightScribe DVD+/-RW / CDRW combination drive can read, write and, using the appropriate media, rewrite a variety DVD and CD media, including CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DL, DVD+RW and DVD-RW. DVD+R, DVD-R and CD-R media are compatible with this drive but are a single write media. The DVD+RW, DVD-RW and CD-RW media can be written to multiple times.

Yes, you need a CD/DVD Writer drive installed on you computer before you can burn CD/DVD with Smart DVD/CD Burner.

Skylog backups work with CD/DVD Re-Writable drives (CD±RW/DVD±RW/DVD-RAM drives) if a proper third party packet writing device driver is installed and configured with your drive. The driver should make the CD/DVD behave like a hard disk. Packet writing software can write only to CD/DVDs if the disks are formatted using the Universal Data Format (UDF) file system.

quot;If you have a DVD burner and movies you'd like to make backups of, you may want to get it--while you can."

Only MULTIREAD CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives can read CD-RW media. Standard CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives cannot read the low-reflectance media used in CD-RW discs.

Yes. If you import a CD or DVD that is not recognized by the Kaleidescape Movie Guide or Music Guide Services, then you can use the Web Utility to add your own information. For an unrecognized DVD, such as a home movie, you can list the cast and director, assign genres, write a synopsis and upload cover art. For an unrecognized CD, such as a recorded home performance, you can list the artist, release date, and track names, assign genres, write a review, and upload cover art.

Simply cease to use CD / DVD as a direct target for your backup operations. Set up GRBackPro to run your scheduled events and let it create backups to your hard drive automatically. Every week or month you can copy the backup copies created with GRBackPro to your CD / DVD device manually, with your favorite CD / DVD recording software or Windows XP built-in CD / DVD recording feature. If it's really necessary to run automatic CD / DVD backups, consider buying a good packet-writing tool.

Yes, but ONLY if the file is opened for not-exclusive write. GRBackPro will back up your last saved version. A file opened for write in exclusive mode, instead, (as for example the Outlook and the database files) causes an error if you do not skip it. You must skip these files or schedule your backup when these files are closed (over night for example). The virtual memory or swap files are automatically skipped by GRBackPro.

Many computers come equipped with a CD or DVD drive, which can be used to make backup copies of your data. These are manual processes and as such involve time and effort; and as a consequence it may often be neglected! a) Someone has to remember to carry out the backup, check that it did so successfully and then store the media safely off-site.

We have encountered rare instances where DirectRoute would not run on CD/DVD drives. It has not been determined yet whether this is specific to a certain manufacturer and model of DVD drive, a particular PC implementation of a drive, or DVD drive software. We’re sorry for any inconvenience this causes.

I've never heard of CD-RW drive that can read DVD discs...which doesn't necessarily mean there isn't one. I would do an internet search of the CD drive model you have to see what it can, in fact, read. I would assume, however, that no CD drive will read DVDs.

If you set up your project to Save to Relative Paths you can move your projects to various computers using any storage media and avoid seeing the ! next to your data layers. How do I download or FTP my data from the Libraries' FTP site? A: Using a web browser (Netscape, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, etc.) Direct your web browser to http://www.lib.washington.edu/maps/GISfiles/. You can do this at a computer in your department, at home, in a lab, wherever is most convenient for you.

Certainly, a CD-burner will work for backups. However, you will need to purchase a good backup application, buy the CDs, regularly perform the backups, catalog the disks and store them in a safe off-site location. In addition, most backup utilities that write to CD force a complete data backup every time, so the backups can take a long time.

Many computers come equipped with a CD or DVD drive, which can be used to make backup copies of your data. These are manual processes and as such involve time and effort; and as a consequence it may often be neglected.

Yes, but this sometimes requires some prior tweaking. A special article, covering this topic in detail, is available on a separate page:

Generally speaking, booting from USB disk, CD/DVD drive is supported on x86 platforms with S10 update 1 and later if the BIOS has USB 2.0 support. Before you can boot Solaris from USB disk, you have to install Solaris on the disk first. Installing on USB memory sticks is not recommended as the number of writes to these sticks is limited. Installation from USB CD/DVD drive starts, but then fails with "not finding media" error.

We don't have mounting brackets for slimline CD/DVD drives. Unfortunately, we are unaware of any other companies that may carry this item.