From: "Randy H" 

Nope-becuase I had Retrospect installed and working and NT backup was
functioning normally as well.

It appears it has something to do with the Removable Storage Manager.

For giggles I'll try to uninstall/reinstall Retrospect but I'm not hopeful.

"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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