PastPerfect Technical Bulletin 01-2002
Backing Up Data to a CD-R or CD-RW with Version 3.0 & Roxio CD Creator 5
revised 6/28/2002
NOT FOR VERSION 4.0 USERS. Please refer to the Version 4 user guide.
Scope: PastPerfect Version 3.0C1 (or above) and Easy CD Creator 5 basic and above, and Windows 98, ME, 2000 Professional, XP Home, or XP Professional.
Notes: Frequent data and image backups are important. Backups should be made daily when working with PastPerfect to reduce the threat of data loss. Many customers have asked for PastPerfect to write directly to their CD-R and RW drives and we are pleased to offer the following instructions. Please note, while these instructions are written for the specified software above, your CD writing software may be equally capable of formatting a CD and writing to it directly from our program.

Configuring the CD:

  1. Click "Start", then "Programs", then "Roxio Easy CD", then "Project Selector"0
  2. Click "Make a Data CD", then Click "direct CD"
  3. Make Note of the drive letter in the upper left corner.
  4. Click "Format CD"
  5. Type in a label like "PP3BackupCD"
  6. Click "Start Format"
  7. When format is complete, close Roxio CD Creator, But leave the CD in the drive

Configuring PastPerfect:

  1. Open PastPerfect
  2. Click "Setup" Click "General Information"
  3. Change the field "CD Backup Drive" to the CD-R Drive (mine is e:\)
  4. Click "Exit"
  5. Click "Utilities", Click "Backup"
  6. Click "Backup Data to CD"
  7. PastPerfect should return a message, "backup to e:\ complete!"

Still not convinced you have data on the CD????

  1. Double-Click My computer
  2. Double Click the CD-R drive
  3. You should see a file called PPBack_A. That's compressed copy of your data!!!

If you have trouble writing directly to your CD using Version 3.0 and Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 Basic, Please contact our Technical Support Office.