Saving clips to a Burnt cd

[tummynavelboy]

how would i save Clips onto a Burnable cd? we're using Memorex (Not the best brand but it will have to for now) there 700 mb 80 mins. Would i open the file first so it downloaded all the way? then scan it with norton antivirus to see if there was a virus on it or not. Then after all that open it up with my cd burning software then burn the Cd? since my parents and i just installed XP Pro last night we're still learnnig about it.

Thanks

 

[Arkham_tk]

You can use the windows burning software with xp pro, that's my o/s and it does the job fine. Just drag and drop your files from the drive they are on into your writable drive (you'll need to have your disc in the drive first of course.) Xp will then give you a heads up in the left hand collum that allows you to burn the files to disk. That's it. I've recently re arranged all of my old clips, pics etc doing it this way onto 8 Cd's and it's absolutely hassle free. If you intend to remove your files from your hard drive when you do this I'd advise that you make two copies of each CD as they can get damaged. 800 mbs is a lot of material to get hold of again once it's lost.

Good luck

Arkham

 

[Arkham_tk]

Ah well, don't think I answered your question there, my mind doth wander from time to time. Yes, download onto your hard drive, perhaps even a specific folder or drive partition. Of course, yes to the antivirus software. Once you've done that burn away old boy! It's the most straightforward and safest way.

Arkham 😱

 

[Droopies]

figure this for me pls

yea, having an extra copy is a MUST! As i found out recently 🙁

if you can enlighten me what happened here, i'd apprecite it. here goes:

CD Rewritable is ok (not damaged). Am on an XP Home. My CDwriter is Acer (usually reliable). And I've done countless transferring from HD to CD in the past. My comp is virus free. So those are the given.

A couple of days ago, I posted a partial file (Ticklish heels). I bought the pay per clip from french tickling. So I wanted to create a longer partial file (like what nessonite suggested, I can come up with almost 2MB of it and still make the TT limit). But i did the unthinkable: Transferred it (or at least tried) to a CD rewritable. Specific steps taken:

1. Erased the CD first (there were some unwanted and cluttered contents).
2. Copied the 40+MB file plus all others (total of 500MB in vid files) onto the CD successfully.
3. erased the ones in my HD
4. then I decided to re-arrange the cluttered files into neat folders so I retransferred all back to my HD and put them in neat folders.
5. then I erased my CD again
6. I then CUT and pasted the neatly arranged vids from my HD to the CD

Now here's the problem:

On my second cut and paste transfer, some folders made it But I encountered error (forgot exact error) in some (including the one where my 40mb stephanie file was at). The baloon (CD image) shows that the erroneous folders are empty. Yet, they are already nowhere to be found in my HD (maybe 'coz I cut them). So where the hell did those files go? I lost them!? So I ended up with a CD copy with missing files. And I seem to be $8 poorer on a clip I bought and lost 🙁 But where did it go?

 

[tummynavelboy]

Where would i found the Burning software on XP Pro? Because when my parents and i had Windows 98. We had Burning software are ready installed onto our desktop once we got the creative 32 x cd-rw burner. But now that we have XP Pro i dont know if that creative burning software to Burn cd's is still on our desktop now that we got XP Pro or not. so thats why i was asking. But at some point i would like to buy somekind of Cd burning software like NERO 6 or something like that. But for now i'll just use XP pros burning software just incase the creative software didn't install again.

 

[Droopies]

CD procedures

In my win 98, I needed an extra software (and i supposed the drivers) --- adaptec or something-- for the CDwriter. But now, in my XP HOME, not sure if there's much diff between this and PRO, the hardware device was easily spotted upon installation and setting configuration. Drivers were built in so it recognized it immediately. The software is built-in in the OS. XP is more "plug and play" than 98 in that.

So when you click on, say, "My Documents" ("My Pictures" or "My Videos"), on the left side you'll see under "Picture Tasks" or "Video Tasks" an option to "Copy all items to CD". The rest of the steps is user friendly. Good luck.

Where would i found the Burning software on XP Pro? Because when my parents and i had Windows 98. We had Burning software are ready installed onto our desktop once we got the creative 32 x cd-rw burner. But now that we have XP Pro i dont know if that creative burning software to Burn cd's is still on our desktop now that we got XP Pro or not. so thats why i was asking. But at some point i would like to buy somekind of Cd burning software like NERO 6 or something like that. But for now i'll just use XP pros burning software just incase the creative software didn't install again.