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Carol Notarianni

we are trying to transfer documents from Windows Xp onto
a CD and are not able to accomplish this. Would someone
share with us how to accomplish it.

Thanks
 
I assume that you have a CD drive capable of Writing and not only Reading.
(You cannot write with a read-only device). If you do, then explain a
little of how you've been trying to copy the documents (i.e. by use of an
application or by drag-and-drop using Windows Explorer, etc...)

Patmor
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Use burner software lie Roxio.
A CD can be formatted with packet CD software then it becomes a drag and
drop utility but only via a CD burner CDROM.
 
Start button -> Help and Support -> Type Burn CD in search box, and then
hit the enter key. The first search result gives you the following:

To copy files and folders to a CD
Insert a blank, writable CD into the CD recorder. Open My Computer.
Click the files or folders you want to copy to the CD. To select more
than one file, hold down the CTRL key while you click the files you
want. Then, under File and Folder Tasks, click Copy this file, Copy this
folder, or Copy the selected items.
If the files are located in My Pictures, under Picture Tasks, click Copy
to CD or Copy all items to CD, and then skip to step 5.

In the Copy Items dialog box, click the CD recording drive, and then
click Copy.
In My Computer, double-click the CD recording drive. Windows displays a
temporary area where the files are held before they are copied to the
CD. Verify that the files and folders that you intend to copy to the CD
appear under Files Ready to be Written to the CD. Under CD Writing
Tasks, click Write these files to CD. Windows displays the CD Writing
Wizard. Follow the instructions in the wizard.
Notes

To open My Computer, click Start, and then click My Computer. Do not
copy more files to the CD than it will hold. Standard CDs hold up to 650
megabytes (MB). High-capacity CDs hold up to 850 MB. Be sure that you
have enough disk space on your hard disk to store the temporary files
that are created during the CD writing process. For a standard CD,
Windows reserves up to 700 MB of the available free space. For a
high-capacity CD, Windows reserves up to 1 gigabyte (GB) of the
available free space.
After you copy files or folders to the CD, it is useful to view the CD
to confirm that the files are copied. For more information, click
Related Topics.
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THAT is "easy" and "intuitive"?????

Not taking a jab at you. You didn't create the mess. I find it amusing tha
people actually PAY to have to go to such depths just to do some of the
simplest things! Your suggestion at searching it out is fine. But the
answer received when searching is awful!

No wonder they're having such trouble keeping countries and governments in
line outside of the US of A these days! Between such counter-productive
things and their licensing and forced upgrades, what else could be the
possible result?
It's funny how search boxes only work when they are used.
Click to expand...

Tell that to Crashandra! She seems to think all she needs to do is parrot
whatever somebody says as long as that somebody has some extra letters
next to their names.

Oh, I forgot. If I'm going to ape Amy-thest, I need to add the following:

Learn how to post then ask again. I don't know the answer but I felt I had
to say something so I'd look like I might actually have some sort of clue
concerning the issue you wrote about. Whatever it was. This is a group
devoted to helping people with questions. If I knew that you asked one, I
might try to help. If I knew the answer!
 
Carol said:
we are trying to transfer documents from Windows Xp onto
a CD and are not able to accomplish this. Would someone
share with us how to accomplish it.
Click to expand...

Read up at http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm on what the inbuilt burning
system does and does not do.

You may find that you need third party software, but start with a look
in My Computer, r-click the CD burner drive and take Properties; on the
Recording page have 'Enable recording' checked.

If that page is not present you do not have a burner drive that XP can
use itself.

If that is OK, then when you right click on a file and Send To, one
place will be that drive. When you have 'sent' enough files to make a
worthwhile batch (Note: there is an overhead of about 14MB per batch, so
less than 40 MB or so is wasteful of disk space)

In My Computer double click the drive - you will see 'files waiting to
be written'. On the left click on 'Write files to CD' and insert a
blank disk when asked.

If you put such a disk back on another occasion, and let it open to view
files in Explorer, there will be a section on 'Files waiting to be
written', as well as the ones already on it. You can drag more files to
this area, and later burn the new batch
 
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