Point DVD-RAM Drive Letter To Hard Drive?

I have a proprietary backup system that backs up it's data to a dvd-
ram drive formatted as ntfs and the system sees it as a large floppy/
superdisk-type drive. This system is wasting a lot of disks, and, to
make a long story short, I want to force the backup software to write
to a hard drive instead of the dvd-ram disk. I've heard this is
possible by editing the registry. Can anyone point me to some
information on this?

I know I'm on my own and unsupported by MS by doing registry-editing.

On Mar 27, 3:55 pm, "Justin Goldberg [L_o_Z]" <justgol...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I have a proprietary backup system that backs up it's data to a dvd-
> ram drive formatted as ntfs and the system sees it as a large floppy/
> superdisk-type drive. This system is wasting a lot of disks, and, to
> make a long story short, I want to force the backup software to write
> to a hard drive instead of the dvd-ram disk. I've heard this is
> possible by editing the registry. Can anyone point me to some
> information on this?
>
> I know I'm on my own and unsupported by MS by doing registry-editing.

Also I want to add that the driver being used is SAI WriteDVD!.

I really don't think this will work 100% but you can try this:

Right click on My Computer -> select Manage.

Go to Disk Management. You should see all of your drives in the lower half
of the window. Select the drive(s) that you want to change (select each
individual drive and repeat this process if you want to change multiple
drives) and right click on it. Then select "Change drive letter and
paths..."

Keep in mind that you can only change the letter to a free drive and you
should reboot. Never change the root drive letter - I don't think Windows XP
will let you do this anyway.

Chris K.
"Justin Goldberg [L_o_Z]" <justgold79@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have a proprietary backup system that backs up it's data to a dvd-
> ram drive formatted as ntfs and the system sees it as a large floppy/
> superdisk-type drive. This system is wasting a lot of disks, and, to
> make a long story short, I want to force the backup software to write
> to a hard drive instead of the dvd-ram disk. I've heard this is
> possible by editing the registry. Can anyone point me to some
> information on this?
>
> I know I'm on my own and unsupported by MS by doing registry-editing.

The advantage of a "RAM Disk" is that it functions as a hard drive -
providing the DVD Drive is designated as RAM capable - very few drives are.
Your backup software does not provide for your "choice" of target drive?

"Justin Goldberg [L_o_Z]" <justgold79@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:6454cbec-b5aa-458a-abb4-b5790c455b42@u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com...
>I have a proprietary backup system that backs up it's data to a dvd-
> ram drive formatted as ntfs and the system sees it as a large floppy/
> superdisk-type drive. This system is wasting a lot of disks, and, to
> make a long story short, I want to force the backup software to write
> to a hard drive instead of the dvd-ram disk. I've heard this is
> possible by editing the registry. Can anyone point me to some
> information on this?
>
> I know I'm on my own and unsupported by MS by doing registry-editing.

No, it doesn't the user a choice. It's sold as an integrated system,
and there's nothing that can be done about it.

So does anyone know the registry edit, or is that what disk manager
does?

On Mar 27, 4:25 pm, "AJR" <ajr...@comcast.net> wrote:
> The advantage of a "RAM Disk" is that it functions as a hard drive -
> providing the DVD Drive is designated as RAM capable - very few drives are.
> Your backup software does not provide for your "choice" of target drive?
>
> "Justin Goldberg [L_o_Z]" <justgol...@gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:6454cbec-b5aa-458a-abb4-b5790c455b42@u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com...
>
> >I have a proprietary backup system that backs up it's data to a dvd-
> > ram drive formatted as ntfs and the system sees it as a large floppy/
> > superdisk-type drive. This system is wasting a lot of disks, and, to
> > make a long story short, I want to force the backup software to write
> > to a hard drive instead of the dvd-ram disk. I've heard this is
> > possible by editing the registry. Can anyone point me to some
> > information on this?
>
> > I know I'm on my own and unsupported by MS by doing registry-editing.


I try and see if that works.


On Mar 27, 4:06 pm, "Chris K." <ckoeber[Do Not
Spam]@googlesemailservice.figureitout> wrote:
> I really don't think this will work 100% but you can try this:
>
> Right click on My Computer -> select Manage.
>
> Go to Disk Management. You should see all of your drives in the lower half
> of the window. Select the drive(s) that you want to change (select each
> individual drive and repeat this process if you want to change multiple
> drives) and right click on it. Then select "Change drive letter and
> paths..."
>
> Keep in mind that you can only change the letter to a free drive and you
> should reboot. Never change the root drive letter - I don't think Windows XP
> will let you do this anyway.
>
> Chris K.
> "Justin Goldberg [L_o_Z]" <justgol...@gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:6454cbec-b5aa-458a-abb4-b5790c455b42@u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com...
>
> >I have a proprietary backup system that backs up it's data to a dvd-
> > ram drive formatted as ntfs and the system sees it as a large floppy/
> > superdisk-type drive. This system is wasting a lot of disks, and, to
> > make a long story short, I want to force the backup software to write
> > to a hard drive instead of the dvd-ram disk. I've heard this is
> > possible by editing the registry. Can anyone point me to some
> > information on this?
>
> > I know I'm on my own and unsupported by MS by doing registry-editing.

IF the software is actually identifying the drive and isn't using the
drive letters (understandable if they want to keep people from pirating
their software) you are in for a bit of work to outsmart them. You would
need to figure it out, there is not a "convenient registry edit" for us
to "give you".

Justin Goldberg wrote:

> No, it doesn't the user a choice. It's sold as an integrated system,
> and there's nothing that can be done about it.
>
> So does anyone know the registry edit, or is that what disk manager
> does?
>
> On Mar 27, 4:25 pm, "AJR" <ajr...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>The advantage of a "RAM Disk" is that it functions as a hard drive -
>>providing the DVD Drive is designated as RAM capable - very few drives are.
>>Your backup software does not provide for your "choice" of target drive?
>>
>>"Justin Goldberg [L_o_Z]" <justgol...@gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:6454cbec-b5aa-458a-abb4-b5790c455b42@u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>
>>>I have a proprietary backup system that backs up it's data to a dvd-
>>>ram drive formatted as ntfs and the system sees it as a large floppy/
>>>superdisk-type drive. This system is wasting a lot of disks, and, to
>>>make a long story short, I want to force the backup software to write
>>>to a hard drive instead of the dvd-ram disk. I've heard this is
>>>possible by editing the registry. Can anyone point me to some
>>>information on this?
>>
>>>I know I'm on my own and unsupported by MS by doing registry-editing.
>
>
>
> I try and see if that works.
>
>
> On Mar 27, 4:06 pm, "Chris K." <ckoeber[Do Not
> Spam]@googlesemailservice.figureitout> wrote:
>
>>I really don't think this will work 100% but you can try this:
>>
>>Right click on My Computer -> select Manage.
>>
>>Go to Disk Management. You should see all of your drives in the lower half
>>of the window. Select the drive(s) that you want to change (select each
>>individual drive and repeat this process if you want to change multiple
>>drives) and right click on it. Then select "Change drive letter and
>>paths..."
>>
>>Keep in mind that you can only change the letter to a free drive and you
>>should reboot. Never change the root drive letter - I don't think Windows XP
>>will let you do this anyway.
>>
>>Chris K.
>>"Justin Goldberg [L_o_Z]" <justgol...@gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:6454cbec-b5aa-458a-abb4-b5790c455b42@u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>
>>>I have a proprietary backup system that backs up it's data to a dvd-
>>>ram drive formatted as ntfs and the system sees it as a large floppy/
>>>superdisk-type drive. This system is wasting a lot of disks, and, to
>>>make a long story short, I want to force the backup software to write
>>>to a hard drive instead of the dvd-ram disk. I've heard this is
>>>possible by editing the registry. Can anyone point me to some
>>>information on this?
>>
>>>I know I'm on my own and unsupported by MS by doing registry-editing.
>
>