I agree with William. If you have an older computer, it helps to defrag first. Don't run any other programs the first time you burn to CD-R, and if it fails, adjust the write speed to a s_l_o_w_e_r setting.
William Kane wrote:
Ann,
I don't have time to get too deep into this, but this will start you off:
You can drag and drop if the AHEAD software is installed, but the catch is this: You need to be using a CD-RW disc (not a CD-R). Simply put the CD-RW into the cd-recorder and then drag and drop files and folders into the cd drive icon.
If you want to use CD-R's, you need to use NERO. Open up NERO and a wizard should automatically open, asking you questions . . . choose new CD, data CD, and then you'll have 2 sets of file trees. One will be on the left, and be empty, and the other will be on the right, and have listings for all the files in your computer. The one on the left represents what you plan to burn, so drag and drop things where you want them. When you've got the files you want set in there, just hit the 'burn now' icon . . .
IL Bill
Ann Sanfedele wrote:
A friend installed it for me. It is there, I can read stuff from the D; drive that used to be my E: drive, I can read Cd's inserted in the new CD-ROM drive. But the software has me totally befuddled. Friend who installed the drive left town (literally) before we actually got to try ot burn something.
I'm an old dos girl, I thought you could just sort of say copy blah blah .jpg e: (wrong) or at least "save as" from photo deluxe.
OF course I want the burner to make CD's to send to people - as a way of displaying my photos. I also thought it would be nice to make screen saver slide shows to sell and/or give to friends. I'm a dunce on this stuff. I thought I could wing it.
The software that came with the burner is called NERO (hehe) and AHEAD software. Acrobat is included, in case you don't have it, to read the manual.
I got this from office max for virtually nothing -- $70 coming back to me in rebates.
So any ideas? I felt a bit less like an idiot when another friend told me of two computer savvy folks of his acquaintance (actually his son and his brother) complained of being quite confused by the software.
I don't want to burn music, I don't want to do a video, all I want is to get files on a disk to back up my hard drive, to show people images, etc. I had thought that a cd could be used just like a floppy but if there is software around that will make it behave like that I'd sure like to know.
annsan the easily confused
