Michael, BK is not really designed to do real CD backup. Do yourself a favor and buy a $20 portable USB DVD drive and you'll probably find a free copy of Nero Essentials included. Nero does real CD/DVD burning. BK's backup routine thinks it is writing to a large floppy (remember them;-) drive, so just like floppies it needs to be formatted in advance. Also did you ever try to read a non-MSDOS floppies on your PC? In other words, if you expect to use that backup CD on multiple computers with different operating systems stay away from formatted CD/DVDs. Jim -----Original Message----- From: bk-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:bk-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Michael Cant Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 12:29 PM To: BK@rootsweb.com Subject: [BK] Burning Data Backup in BK 6.5.11 to a CDR Hi all, I went through the "backup Data Files" process with a new blank CDR in the rewriter drive and this error came up. Drive not available. If you have Windows Vista or Windows 7 then go to start, Computer, and Right Click your CD/DVD drive and if there is an option to Format the blank CD/DVD then pick that. I have not heard that a new CDR can be formatted? The format button is greyed out anyhow. It seems to be a "Brother's Keeper 6" report. I have burnt photo files to a CDR, so the DVD rewriter drive seems ok! System. AMD Phenom (tm) II X 4 965 Processor 3.40 GHz ASRock 96OGM- GS3 FX Or 96OGM-S3 FX Motherboard 6GB DDR3 1333Mhz DRAM ATI HD 5670 51MB GDDR5 DVI VGA HDMI Out Graphics Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64 bit Operating System Office 2007 Any suggestions Welcomed, Mick. Michael Cant Isle of Wight UK Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thank you Jim, That explained it brilliantly. I have just downloaded Nero Essentials, but for my BK backups I will stick to flash drives as I did before. I think after going through the process of changing the data file paths through BK from what they were in XP to now with Win 7 I wanted the most secure backup possible to ensure I did not have to go through it again if something else went wrong on my new Win 7 computer. Mick. -----Original Message----- From: bk-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:bk-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jim Dell Sent: 18 July 2012 21:32 To: bk@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BK] Burning Data Backup in BK 6.5.11 to a CDR Michael, BK is not really designed to do real CD backup. Do yourself a favor and buy a $20 portable USB DVD drive and you'll probably find a free copy of Nero Essentials included. Nero does real CD/DVD burning. BK's backup routine thinks it is writing to a large floppy (remember them;-) drive, so just like floppies it needs to be formatted in advance. Also did you ever try to read a non-MSDOS floppies on your PC? In other words, if you expect to use that backup CD on multiple computers with different operating systems stay away from formatted CD/DVDs. Jim