Trying to Backup My Pictures..

humfer

Sorry if this appears a really simple task. Getting a new PC and have about 3GB of pictures I want to burn onto a DVD. Whenever I go to copy pictures to CD, it comes up with a "Windows encounterer as problem when trying to copy this folder". Any clues to what I might be doing wrong?

aliEnRIK

Download IMGBURN
Goto BURN FOLDERS/FILES and burn through that

macman

Are you attempting to burn to CD or DVD? Your post says both. Windows XP has no built in DVD writing software, only CD.
You can't burn 3GB to a single CD, max capacity is around 700MB.

manta_3

Could be the folder is copy protected, i think its more likely that you are trying to burn to a dvd and you dotn have the hardware/software to do it.

To fix it, just copy them onto 4 different cd's

humfer

macman wrote: »

Are you attempting to burn to CD or DVD? Your post says both. Windows XP has no built in DVD writing software, only CD.
You can't burn 3GB to a single CD, max capacity is around 700MB.

Ah that explains it. Trying to burn to a DVD, so thats the problem. Didn't realise XP didn't have any DVD writing software.

macman

You can download IMGBURN or use 4 or 5 CD's. This is assuming that you have a DVD burner on you older PC. Or use a USB flash drive-most of them are now 4 or 8GB.

humfer

macman wrote: »

You can download IMGBURN or use 4 or 5 CD's. This is assuming that you have a DVD burner on you older PC. Or use a USB flash drive-most of them are now 4 or 8GB.

I have 3 1GB flash drives so will just use them to transfer the files to the new PC. new PC has Vista - will this have DVD burning software built in?

macman

Yes, it's built in to Vista.