Does Second Copy work with CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-RW drives?
Yes. Second Copy works with CD/DVD Recordable/ReWritable drives (CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-RW) if a proper device driver is installed and configured with your drive. The driver should make the CDRW behave like a large floppy disk. Nero InCD (part of Nero 6 or later) and Roxio DirectCD (part of Easy Media Creator) are two such products that work with various optical drives and makes them look like large floppy disks. Check with your CD/DVD documentation. One simple test to see if Second Copy will work with a CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-RW drive is to see if you can copy files from your hard disk to the optical drive using Windows Explorer. If Windows Explorer can copy files to the drive Second Copy can too. Window XP and above is included with a “lite” version of Adaptec/Roxio’s Easy CD and it does not make the CD-R/RW/DVD-RW look like a hard disk. You will need to install a packet writing software such as Roxio’s DirectCD for Windows. DirectCD is included with Easy Media Creator for Windows. DirectCD allows y
