Change Destination CD Drive to DVD Drive

[Guest]

I am attempting to copy and write E-mail to my CD Drive,
but the volume of data is too large to write on my CD.

I tried to change and write to my DVD Drive,
but I am not able to access the data to write to my DVD.

I need to continue with the already saved data to be written to my CD
because some of those E-mails disappeared when our electricity blinked
during a thunderstorm.

Question:
1. How can I change the destination drive from my CD Drive to my DVD Drive?
Without re-selecting the data - since some of the data needed
disappeared when the electricity blinked during a thunderstorm?

2. How can I copy the selected data to my CD Drive
when the amount of data exceeds the capacity of the CD?

3. Is there a way to compact the data that has already been selected
and ready to write to a CD?

I need to know how to copy this selected data to a CD or DVD.

Please Help.
Thank You,

 

[Guest]

I dought e-mail(s) even exist to fill a cd or dvd,cd are good for 700mb,dvd
even more,thats about 100,000 e-mails since e-mail is usually in kb.Thiers
no way to write e-mail thru a cd,it would simply have to be extracted from
the cd to send.If you wanted to save e-mails,Go to file on task bar (with
e-mail
opened),select save as,save to new folder that you created (in my pictures,or
similiar),once collected,move folder to cdrw or dvd.

 

[Guest]

Thank You, Andrew, for responding to my request.

I failed to state clearly what I was attempting to do with my Outlook
Express 6 E-mail, using Windows XP Home Edition, and Microsoft Office Pro
2003.

To save the E-mail files, one E-mail at a time, will be much too time
consuming.

I was attempting to copy and save a "batch of E-mails with attached
pictures" to a CD, but the selected files are 400 MB over the capacity of the
CD.

Since I have selected the E-mail files to copy, to save, and to write to my
CD,
-- I only want to save these selected E-mails to my CD --
an electrical, thunderstorm caused our lights to blink off for just a few
seconds,
but now many of my "selected E-mails" are missing from my E-mail folder.

So, I cannot go back and re-select those missing E-mails to copy, save, and
write to a different destination -- to my DVD Drive.

Please instruct me . . .

1. "How To" compact those selected "batch of E-mails" with attached
pictures?

Is there a way to "open" these "ready to write" E-mails to delete some
of them
until I have reduced the data volume to fit within the capacity of the CD?

If this is possible, please instruct me how to do this . . .

Or,

2. "How To" copy a segment of my selected and ready to write "batch of
E-mails"
to one CD, and then to switch CD's, and finish writing to a 2nd CD? Or,

3. "How To" change my destination drive from the CD Drive to the DVD Drive
-- after the "batch of E-mails" have been selected and ready to write to
a CD?

Remember, many of those selected E-mails are now missing from my E-mail folder
due to the electrical, thunderstorm, that interrupted our electricity for a
few seconds, my computer restarted, and many E-mails are missing.

Please Help Me write these selected E-mails to the DVD.
Thank You,

 

[Jim]

I am attempting to copy and write E-mail to my CD Drive,
but the volume of data is too large to write on my CD.

I tried to change and write to my DVD Drive,
but I am not able to access the data to write to my DVD.

I need to continue with the already saved data to be written to my CD
because some of those E-mails disappeared when our electricity blinked
during a thunderstorm.

Question:
1. How can I change the destination drive from my CD Drive to my DVD
Drive?
Without re-selecting the data - since some of the data needed
disappeared when the electricity blinked during a thunderstorm?

2. How can I copy the selected data to my CD Drive
when the amount of data exceeds the capacity of the CD?

3. Is there a way to compact the data that has already been selected
and ready to write to a CD?

I need to know how to copy this selected data to a CD or DVD.

Please Help.
Thank You,

I suppose that you are trying to use XP's native CD copying procedure.
If so, you are out of luck because:
1. XP cannot split files between CDs. Instead, you must save files one at
a time until the drive is full.
2. XP cannot write to a DVD of any kind. Instead, you must use a program
such as EasyCD Creator or Nero.

The above programs can quite easily perform the tasks that you described.

Jim

 

[Guest]

Thank You, Jim, for responding to my request for help.

And, thank you, for suggesting Easy Creator and Nero.

I have one follow up question:

Since I have already selected and have "ready files to write" to a CD in
Windows XP,
can I move these selected files to Easy Creator or Nero and burn the files?

Since selecting these files and they are ready to write to a CD,
an electrical storm caused a brief blink in our electrical power and caused
many of these files to disappear from my E-mail folder.

So, I need to be able to move these selected files with attached pictures
that are ready to write to a Windows XP formatted CD Drive - PleXWriter
40/12/40A - to the Easy CD Creator or the Nero CD Burner.

Can I transfer these selected files to Easy CD Creator or the Nero Burner?

An answer to this question is very important to saving these E-mails that
are now missing from my E-mail folder.

Again, thank you, Jim for providing valuable help to my significant problem.