I don't know if other brands have this, but my new HP has a thing called "HP recovery CD-DVD creator. I made a backup with it, it took 8 CD's.
My father knows enough about computers to be dangerous. This is why I'm asking him to wipe his machine and start fresh (no one truly knows what is existing on his machine right now). However, he of course needs to back up his important files before doing this. He is too stubborn to choose which files he should keep and which should be discarded, so he wants to create one big backup file. I'm hoping he will discard some stuff during this process, but there is no guarantee. This file will be way too big for one CD, and I know he won't buy a dvd burner. Is there a way we can create a backup file and burn it over multiple CDs? I know this is the only way I can convince him to do a backup at all... and with the way he uses his computer, he really should back up his data. We are currently using Microsoft's back utitlity, but I heard that's pretty old technology, so if there is something better out there, please let me know.
Thanks so much for your help!
Trish

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