My computer is a new one and it did not come with a A drive.   I was told that I could put files and data on blank CD disc.   I need to know how to do that.   I have things on my home computer that I need to put on disc for back up.  Thank you.
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First, try to check if you have a CD or DVD drive capable of burning CDs and or DVDs. If you have a drive that can burn DVDs so much better because you could choose which one to use. A DVD burner can burn VCD but not vise versa.\n\nSecond, if you have one of this then you must have a software to use to burn CDs or DVDs. Usually if you have a CD or DVD burning drive, the software to use with it goes with it also. If they are already installed in your computer, then all you have to do is run them and follow instruction.  I know two softwares that does this, one is Nero and the other is Roxio.\n\nHowever, if you don't have a burner, then you can purchase one and you could choose which one to use, built in or external. I would prefer the external one as it is connected to the computer using usb, and therefore could be used with any computer available, specially when you have more than one computer.
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The most convenient way is to backup your system using special software, such as Acronis True Image, to the CDs or DVDs. True Image has very friendly interface and I think that it won't take you a long to time to understand how it works. The latest versions of ATI can burn a CD or DVD but one can just use ATI 7 (free version) to create an image of a hard drive/of a partition on a hard drive and then just burn it to CD. However ATI 7 can just burn a bootable CD and in case your system fails you'll be able to boot from it just in minutes.\nYou can purchase the latest version of ATI here: http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/\nOr download a free version of ATI here: http://www.acronis.com/mag/vnu-ati7
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Dear Friend,\nYou first need to formate the entire disk.\nThen Boot your Computer using windows CD.\nThen there is a Software Segate Disk Manager. Run it. Follow the instructions. \nThere Comes a software with the Windows OS CD F-Disk.\nIt will also do but will take time.
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ahhh to copy a disk, you must create a disk image of the disk.. a disk image is an exact "virtual" copy..\n\n\nWhen you image is done, you burn the image to a blank cd,, and Voilà!\n\nHow make a disk image.. to make disk image comes with your disk burning software, look for this feature and this should be there.. somewhere..\n\nmake disk image..
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Ouch!\n\nIf you lost your restore disk, then you have no choice but to buy the software -- that is unless the place that sold you the PC will give you a new restore disk. Perhaps the computer manufacturer will have a restore disk you can purchase for a nominal fee. \n\nIt's an expensive lesson otherwise.
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it's very simple. all you do is insert the disk into your computer. is it a CD or a floppy? if it's a CD, you pull up the file you wish to save and click on Save As. this should pull up a menu. you want to change the top part to say drive D or E disc instead of documents or whatever it's under right now. you do the dame thing with a floppy except you select the A drive.
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Just plug in your external hard drive, and start My Computer.  If the hard drive is properly formatted and partitioned, then it should show the drive with a new letter on the same place you will see your "C" drive.\n\nIf it does not show up then you will have to initialise the disk and format the disk for you to begin using it.\n\nAssuming everything is fine, simply drag and drop files into the new drive.  It maybe sensible to create folder and organise your data.\n\nSimply, right click on one of the files/mp3 etc and choose Open or to be more specific choose Open with and select the appropriate program.\n\nAlso before powering down your external hard drive or your computer, remember to disconnect the external drive safely on Windows.  On the System Tray, where your time shows on the bottom right hand corner.  There is an icon if you hover the mouse over it says "Remove Safely" or "Remove Hardware Safely".  Click on this and it will display the devices that are currntly connected.  Click on the entry related to the external hard drive.  If you do not do this, the hard drive can get corrupted.\n\nI lost about 40Gb worth of data by not doing this in a moment of madness.\n\nHope this is helpful.
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Well, without a cd burner you are not going able to get anything onto a cd. So... lets go the next best route. Get a usb hard drive, and put everything on that and then you can keep it on that or dump it onto the new computer. But without a cd burner, you cant get anything onto a cd.\n\n-------\nA usb hard drive will cost you around anywhere to 60 to 100 bucks, now depending on how large your photos are you might be able to get them onto like a flash drive then can get up to 2 gigs and a lil higher but still run you around at least 40 bucks and up.\n\ngood luck
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go to start, accessories, system tools, disk cleanup.\n\nI also like the program crap cleaner to clean the harddrive. you can find it at filehippo.com. \nAlso to backup your harddrive, you need a dvdrw drive or an external hard drive or cdrw drive to copy your files to another storage space. i recommend the dvds or another hard drive because you'll need a lot of cds! then just burn your files like you would a music cd/dvd.
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Maybe you need a new CD or DVD ROM Drive. If you want, you can buy CD-RW drive or DVD-/+RW drive (Also burn CD)\n\nPlus, they not disk they disc like CD or DVD!\n\nDisk mean like floppy disk or hard drive
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You have to back them up in a secondary storage device like a USB drive or a CD. If you have multiple drives in your PC (say a C and a D drive),you can move the files from C to D and format the C drive if you want. If you run short of space,then distribute them across the drives you have. Still if you run out of space,there is no other way but to take a CD/USB backup.\n\nTo recover the lost files,try if they are hidden under Folder options. If you attempted a format on the drive and it went blank because of it,then there's no way i know that you can recover it.
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if you are running windows XP you can use the file and settings transfer wizzard to make a back-up copy of your computer. then you can do a fresh install and using the back-up copy and the file and setting transfer wizzard you can put your info back on the puter. the wizzard will let you choose what files you wan to keep. you could also use your external drive to back-up to. create new folders on your external and move the files you want there.
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You can connect it on a working computer, then go to My Computer -> right click on the external drive -> then click format.\n\nhope this helps...
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I would assume it needs drivers.\nIf it came with a CD, you need to run your CD.\nIf you got it used, and it came with no CD or info, look for a model number on it somewhere and do a google search on that number and see if there are some drivers you can download.\n\nIf your using a USB drive with Windows XP, there's a good chance you don't need to get some drivers. In this case, you need to look at the manufacturer's website.
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You need to make the CD a bootable disk. Make sure it is still set to boot the CD rom drive before it boots anything else. You might need to start in MS Prompt mode and just manually initialize setup.\n\nIm assuming youre trying to make a restore disk with your operating system?\n\nGo to this site:\nhttp://www.tech-forums.net/computer_articles/restore/restore-disk.php\n\nIt basically gives you step by step directions.
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My computer used to do that too. You need to have CD formatting software or else your computer just sees it as a blank empty thing. I got Nero StartSmart.. it works great.