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Summary: Cannot recommed this as a back-up solution.
Review: I bought this mainly to do backups on CD-RWs and have not tried out the music making, data disk creating capabilites, or other features to any great extent. I first tried using this to back up to CD-RWs. Although my drive is on their list of supported hardware I was never able to get this to successfully back-up to CD-RWs. I tried calling tech support and spent 40 minutes on hold even though I was told that "there were no callers ahead of me in the queue" the entire time. When I finally spoke to someone from tech support he was not very helpful and must have worked mostly on Novators other product lines and said that he personally "had never burned a CD in his life." When you try to re-use a CD-RW the software has an option on it to enable it to automatically overwrite the older backup files with the new ones. Unfortunatly this option does not work (Novator even admitted this). If you want to re-use a set of CD-RWs you have to erase (reformat) them all first which is a real pain. Unfortunatly this solution did not seem to work very well either. The product usually refused to use the CD-RWs that had been reformatted. (reformatting was done using the Novastor Instant CD Wizard)There is no user manual to speak of and the help files were not very helpful at all. I currently am backing up to CDRs only, and gave up trying to use CD-RWs with this product (I have been successful using CD-RWs with other products.) Using CDRs the product works fairly well although it occassionaly gives a cryptic error message in the middle of a backup and you end up with an unusable CD. It also has a tendency not to compress the data (sometimes) even though the compression option has been selected. You end uop using twice as many CDRs. Overall I cannot recommend this product as a back-up tool. Perhaps later versions will improve.
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Summary: Cannot recommed this as a back-up solution.
Review: I bought this mainly to do backups on CD-RWs and have not tried out the music making, data disk creating capabilites, or other features to any great extent. I first tried using this to back up to CD-RWs. Although my drive is on their list of supported hardware I was never able to get this to successfully back-up to CD-RWs. I tried calling tech support and spent 40 minutes on hold even though I was told that "there were no callers ahead of me in the queue" the entire time. When I finally spoke to someone from tech support he was not very helpful and must have worked mostly on Novators other product lines and said that he personally "had never burned a CD in his life." When you try to re-use a CD-RW the software has an option on it to enable it to automatically overwrite the older backup files with the new ones. Unfortunatly this option does not work (Novator even admitted this). If you want to re-use a set of CD-RWs you have to erase (reformat) them all first which is a real pain. Unfortunatly this solution did not seem to work very well either. The product usually refused to use the CD-RWs that had been reformatted. (reformatting was done using the Novastor Instant CD Wizard) There is no user manual to speak of and the help files were not very helpful at all. I currently am backing up to CDRs only, and gave up trying to use CD-RWs with this product (I have been successful using CD-RWs with other products.) Using CDRs the product works fairly well although it occassionaly gives a cryptic error message in the middle of a backup and you end up with an unusable CD. It also has a tendency not to compress the data (sometimes) even though the compression option has been selected. You end uop using twice as many CDRs. Overall I cannot recommend this product as a back-up tool. Perhaps later versions will improve.
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