Rescue and recovery keeps failing

[bfgun]

Trying to make a backup of my friend's thinkpad - he has a cdrw drive but i attached a external USB DVD burner. Seems that when ever it gets to about 3/4 way into the dvd, it kicks back with an error message saying it's unable to write to the dvd. The dvd burner itself works fine with any other app except for this one.

What we're trying to do is make a mirror image of the hard drive so we can put a faster hard drive in it. The app will burn the start-up disc, then when we start burning the first DVD, that's where we have the problem. I Can't find any settings in the application to slow down the burn speed, and I suspect that the dvd burner might not be getting the data fast to keep up with the burinng process, in other words, it's burning faster than what can be kept in the buffer.

Any suggestions? I have an external USB HD that I can use if there's any way to copy the HD image to an external drive without going the HD backup route.

Thanks!
Brian

[andyP]

Which version of R&R are you using? Some earlier versions did not support dvds.

[bfgun]

latest one version 4.1

can't find any setting where i can control the write speed. Figured if i can find this, then this would solve my problem.

-B

[zern]

I use Acronis TrueImage for this sort of thing (and also for my daily backups).

The new blank HD goes inside an ultrabay 2nd HDD adaptor which fits where your optical drive is at the mo. This is inexpensive and handy to have. You can put the old drive into this adaptor and use it as a backup drive or Photoshop/Illustrator scratch disk.

TrueImage is used to copy the entire primary HD into the new one. Including the service partition even.

I swap the drives physically. And I am done.

Good luck with it.