From: "bob chronister" 

i have seen instances when a tape drive was not recognized simply due to
bad hard drive blocks. should not happen but did. BIOS would recognize the
drive but 98se would not. drove me nuts until the drive failed completely.
what type of tape drive is giving you the lost problem?

"Randy H"  wrote in message
news:3dfe7f21{at}w3.nls.net...
> I finally bit the bullet and re-Ghosted back to an October image.
>
> And I'll be taking nightly ASR backups in the meantime as I re-install
some
> apps. Maybe I'll get lucky and trip over the offending app. Then again,
> maybe not.
>
> 15 years ago when I was working with IMS and DBRC we had a saying:
> "trust no one but the computer." Now, it's "trust
nothing but a disk image
> backup made outside of the host OS".
>
> "Geo."  wrote in message
news:3dfcd5b5$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > deactivate the drive in device manager, reboot, see if anything
complains.
> >
> > Geo.
> >
> > "Randy H"  wrote in message
> > news:3dfcca09{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > Just uninstalled Retrospect-no joy-Ntbackup can't/won't see the
> > > tape drive, and I can't do anything with the media in Removeable
> > > Media Storage.
> > >
> > > So now I have a system that, outside of a third-party package, I can't
> > > backup to tape using the MSFT delivered products.
> > >
> > > Now I know why folks use 3rd-party products-they can't trust
> > > the Microsoft ones to work.
> > >
> > >
> > > "Robert Comer" 
wrote in message
> > > news:3dfcb1dc{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > > Maybe dantz's Retrospect?
> > > >
> > > > A lot of backup software uses their own tape drivers and lock the
> device
> > > for
> > > > their own use...
> > > >
> > > > - Bob Comer
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "Randy H" 
wrote in message
> > > > news:3dfcaa20$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > > > ...to make my tape drive invisible to Microsoft's
tape backup, but
> the
> > > > drive
> > > > > shows up in the Device Manager and is fully usable
by Dantz's
> > > Retrospect?
> > > > >
> > > > > Becuase of this I can't take any ASR snapshot
backups to tape.
> > > > >
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