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Backup help needed

I am brand new at quickbooks, and I am using the SimpleStart Version. My Problem is, when I try to backup my work, it tries to default me to my hard drive, when I really want to put the info on my CD drive E. I use the browse option, select Drive E, and I have put a disc in the drive. But, when I select the backup option, it keeps defaulting me back to my C drive and asking if I want to do an online backup, rather than backup to my C drive, which I dont. What the heck am I dong wrong here? Thanks in advance for helping this old codger! Gene

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Gene
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You cannot backup to a CD.

You must first backup to the hard drive then copy the result to the CD. Even then, you may have problems unless you use a bit of software designed to do packet writing (e.g., Nero). The alleged capacity to create a CD from within Windows XP is primitive at best.

Neither Windows nor QB has any native capacity to write to a CD.

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HeyBub

I don't back up from within Quickbooks. Rather I go outside of quickbooks and copy the entire Quickbooks data file to two zip disks, two USB drives, and periodically burn to CD.

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Barnabas Collins

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