Re: FN-FORUM Burning CDs on PC for use on a Mac

date posted 20th April 2001 11:56

Hi Ruth,
Thanks I will persevere. I was put off by the message that if you wanted a
hard disc backup you had to do the whole thing. I have 20 GB (Win 98) of
which only 2GB are used. I worked out that I would have to be around
swapping discs for a solid 24 hours to do the whole thing 3/4 hr per disc
of 650k!
In the end I uploadied the important stuff to one of my websited and ignored
the rest. Now it is just the time involved in reinstalling Apache , MySQL ,
FAX software, editor etc. if anything goes wrong .

David
(going off to practice his secret handshakes)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ruth Arnold" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM Burning CDs on PC for use on a Mac


> I've also got Nero on my PC and I agree with you about the obscurity of
the
> instructions. It's like reading the rulebook for a Masonic society -
unless
> you know the secret handshakes you're buggered!
>
> Anyhow, persevere and everything should work well. I eventually figured
out
> how to burn backup CDs at 8 speed, which means that I can get full backups
> done in about 5 minutes - v cool... if only I'd remember to do it more
> often.
>
> I started off by creating an image first and then burning, but since
> figuring out how it works better (you have to increase the size of your
> cache - I increased mine to 48MB in a PC with 128MB of RAM), I don't have
to
> make a disk image anymore and just drag the folders and files over and hit
> burn.
>
> I'm running win2k and had to upgrade my copy of Nero to version
> 5.3.something as the version that came with the CD burner wouldn't install
> on win2k.
>
> The only problem I have now is getting the CDs out of the *!#"! plastic
> wrappers.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> ruth arnold
> spacehoppa.com
>