O/T Saving stuff to disk

Re: O/T Saving stuff to disk

Ian Neuhaus

>I'm not entirely sure as the detail varies a little depending upon your operating system (win98, win2k, winXP) and whether you log in as a user or an Administrator.

On my system (win2k and logged on as a User) disks are identified as:

Local Disk (meaning a hard disk),

Removable Disk (meaning a floppy, USB storage or similar)

Compact Disk

One question: have you been saving to "My Computer" or to "My Documents" ?

if the later, everything's saved to a folder on your hard disk.

This may not work for you, but what I do is classify everything I save into an appropriate folder on my hard disk � say "eBay purchases March 2006" � then sometime during April I could copy the contents of "eBay purchases March 2006" to a CD. But I rarely bother except when I do a data back-up.

When I last looked this PC had about 200,000 files on it occupying about 30 Gigabytes with about 85Gb free � enough space for a further 400,000 or so files.

Re: O/T Saving stuff to disk

Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI

>Here goes the blind leading the blind, but I will tell you my experience anyway. Cabela's in Dundee, MI doesn't open till 10, so I am not leaving here until around 8 so I have a little bit of extra time this morning ;) Fist of all, I will say that you need a CD burner to save stuff onto a disc. My cd burner is a different drive from my cd/dvd drive. My hard disk is C:, which I have found fairly standard, cd drive is D: and cd burner is E:. Whenever I want to save something onto disc I save it to my hard drive (C) first, and then open explorer (My Computer), open the folder with the files I want to save, and then do a "save to" E:. Windows XP makes all of these tasks pretty much idiot proof; opening My Computer will show little images of the different drives available on the computer. Discs need to be made compatible after you have stored everything on them that you want; some discs are re-writable and others are not.

Re: O/T Saving stuff to disk

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native now in Jax Fl.

>Thanks Moses,

I think I've got stuff saved to disk now but am not sure how to prove it. I'm using windows XP. I just bought this computer in Dec. of '05 and as far as I know I got most of the bells and whistles.

Ian, I hear ya' on just saving stuff on the hard drive, but I'd rather get it saved straight away to cd's that way if something happens to the computer itself at least I've got some info saved seperately.

I had pretty much just learned how to save stuff to floppy disk and they went and changed the rules of the game by not having a floppy disk slot on this computer. I think that they do this dilibrately just to f#@k with me. }:~[

Re: O/T Saving stuff to disk

Joe Rogers, Northern Virginia

>Oh heck Todd...Just get an external usp floppy drive.JR