Difference between auomatic Backups & doing your own Backups?

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Hi y'all,

I am a tad confused concerning backups, I just got my new HPp6320y/win7/upgraded mohterboard/2.7Gz cpu,64bit,8G-ram. HP suggests to immediately burn a recovery-re-boot disk,which I did. Then they strongly suggest to copy a system shadow restore disc

using a external hardrive or external storage such as cd-rw discs, I don't quite understand if I can burn a system shadow using my existing internal disk drive or another form of storage such as USB drives provided they have enough capacity.

So far so good, But when I first tried to burn a shadow/system using my existing built in internal disk drive, the only choice in the popup after clicking "burn backup of system" was my internal hardrvie. It did not respond to putting a disk in, so

I aborted the back up until I could figure out if I was doing something wrong and fix it

I realize my HP  automatic back up restore points are done on a regular basis w/out me having to ask , once the partition space reserved for the various backups reached its full capacity, my system deletes the oldest ones to give room for new ones,correct?

I also realize the purpose of having a system shadow is if your hardrive goes bad, you can restore your entire O.S & personal data to a new drive, so storing it in a partition of your currently working hardrive would not make sense if it goes bad, correct?

So why, will my system not burn a shadow on a known R/W good disk freshly unwrapped? (I have 10 of these I bought still wrapped)

Do I need to use a external remote disk player/burner? 

Also, I have a built-in factory removable pocket media drive that came out of my older HPa610n and it holds 160Gs, I have the proper connection and it shows up as a storage device when I turn on my new current HP. However, when I click backup a system

shadow, it only shows my existing internal cd-drive as an option to where I am supposed to store my system shadow. Yet they claim I can use a USB device provided it can hold enough storage, I am truly baffled and feel a migraine coming on!!!!

HELP!!!      please....regards,  boulonman

 

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