Re: Off topic: CD-R backup

[Patricia M Godfrey pmgodfrey@xxxxxxxx]

Yes, well, backing up one's whole system would be lovely, but as far as I
can see, Windoesn't won't let you. Oh, one can create a compressed
specialized backup file, but one would have to be running Windows to
restore it, no? But actually copying C: in toto? You cannot do it from
within Win, because some of the files are "in use." Booting into DOS, you
cannot access your CD-R (at least, not in record mode). I thought I might
have found a workaround with my new, huge, hard drive: boot to DOS, copy
C: to a directory on F:, then reboot to Windows and copy the F: directory
to a CD (once I get a CD-R). Halfway through the procedure I get an
"invalid path" (it was in the middle of the Acrobat Reader folder, and I
cannot imagine what was invalid--unless the path was so long that it went
over DOS's path length limit?) and the whole shebang shuts down. Grr.
Patricia