Just to let those who use Easy CD Creator's Take Two for their HD Backup. This is why I have put off upgrading to WinXP until I can find a suitable backup software:
From Roxio's Support Section-------------
"Take Two has been removed from Easy CD Creator 5.1 Platinum. It will be disabled by the Easy CD Creator xp_up.exe and the future Easy CD Creator 5.1 upgrade in Windows XP.
Note: Take Two was developed when the Windows 95 operating system and smaller hard drives were the rule. As hard disk drives grew in size it became evident that Take Two was not the best backup solution. In the case of some newer CD burners, that use USB or PCMCIA, we also found that there weren't any DOS based drivers. Since our software does it's file verification and restore from DOS, on these systems the software was rendered useless. Then in our testing under XP it became evident that users would not have a good experience with the application under this OS. We decided we did not want to risk any incompatibility issues with the new Windows XP OS.
We removed Take Two because we don't want to mislead people by selling them a feature that does not work well under all Operating Systems."
That probably wasn't very smart. Don't they know someone will probably crack it soon and make it the full version, just like they've done with so many other programs.
I still use 3.5c myself; much leaner then 4.x and up, and seems to work much better (instead of crashing or making coasters like the later versions). I guess 3.5 won't work on XP though; too bad, but there's always Nero :)
From Roxio's Support Section-------------
"Take Two has been removed from Easy CD Creator 5.1 Platinum. It will be disabled by the Easy CD Creator xp_up.exe and the future Easy CD Creator 5.1 upgrade in Windows XP.
Note:
Take Two was developed when the Windows 95 operating system and smaller hard drives were the rule. As hard disk drives grew in size it became evident that Take Two was not the best backup solution. In the case of some newer CD burners, that use USB or PCMCIA, we also found that there weren't any DOS based drivers. Since our software does it's file verification and restore from DOS, on these systems the software was rendered useless. Then in our testing under XP it became evident that users would not have a good experience with the application under this OS. We decided we did not want to risk any incompatibility issues with the new Windows XP OS.
We removed Take Two because we don't want to mislead people by selling them a feature that does not work well under all Operating Systems."
I still use 3.5c myself; much leaner then 4.x and up, and seems to work much better (instead of crashing or making coasters like the later versions). I guess 3.5 won't work on XP though; too bad, but there's always Nero :)