COPYING FILES

[WIGOCKE]

TRYING TO BURN FILES TO CD...MY 'IDIOTS XP BOOK' SAYS TO HIGHLIGHT FILES IN
MY COMPUTOR, SELECT FILE AND SEND TO CD DRIVE 'D'....BUT MY DROP DOWN LIST
ONLY HAS FLOPPY A AND REMOVABLE G....SO WHERE IS DRIVE 'D', OR WHERE DO I
TEMPORARILY STORE FILES BEFORE BURNING ??

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

TRYING TO BURN FILES TO CD...MY 'IDIOTS XP BOOK' SAYS TO HIGHLIGHT
FILES IN MY COMPUTOR, SELECT FILE AND SEND TO CD DRIVE 'D'....BUT MY
DROP DOWN LIST ONLY HAS FLOPPY A AND REMOVABLE G....SO WHERE IS DRIVE
'D', OR WHERE DO I TEMPORARILY STORE FILES BEFORE BURNING ??

Hi - first, try to lose the 'all caps' ... it means "shouting" and will put
people off.

Secondly, you need a CD burner on your computer. Are you sure you have one?
If so, do you have any burning software that came with it, such as Nero,
etc?

 

[Paul]

TRYING TO BURN FILES TO CD...MY 'IDIOTS XP BOOK' SAYS TO HIGHLIGHT FILES IN
MY COMPUTOR, SELECT FILE AND SEND TO CD DRIVE 'D'....BUT MY DROP DOWN LIST
ONLY HAS FLOPPY A AND REMOVABLE G....SO WHERE IS DRIVE 'D', OR WHERE DO I
TEMPORARILY STORE FILES BEFORE BURNING ??

Nero Infotool will tell you the characteristics of your optical drive.
This is version 5.3.3. Install this and run it.

http://majorgeeks.com/Nero_InfoTool_d120.html

While this screenshot is in the Russian language, you can see
the basic idea. The Infotool has tick boxes, showing all the
optical drive standards your optical drive supports. Check the
tick boxes shown, to determine whether your drive is a
"reader only" or both reads and writes.

http://www.3dnews.ru/documents/3890/neroinfotool.JPG

While InfoTool is bundled with the commercial Nero package,
the author of the program also makes it available for
download.

HTH,
Paul