From: "Randy H" 

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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