Windows XP and Cd Rw

[kcfansallee]

Now if one wants to use there CD writeable drive for backing up programs, does XP have a program installed to format CDs or do you have to go through a third party program like CD creator. The drive is recognizing the Disks I am putting in, but can't get Quicken to write to the cd drive? Thanks for any info on this matter.

[meatwad]

Now if one wants to use there CD writeable drive for backing up programs, does XP have a program installed to format CDs or do you have to go through a third party program like CD creator. The drive is recognizing the Disks I am putting in, but can't get Quicken to write to the cd drive? Thanks for any info on this matter.

I don't believe that Quicken will write directly to the CD. I'm pretty sure you have to backup the data to hard disk and then burn it from there.

[hudsonsmith]

Are you saying that you want to back up Quicken's data files to the cd drive? If you want to do it from within Quicken, you need to have packet-writing software (inCD or DirectCD) installed. This makes windows treat the CD as another disk drive and you can save directly to it. I know that many have had problems with this software, but I have been using inCD for some time without incident. Otherwise, if you want to use XP's built-in CD burning, you would need to manually select the files to back up.