I want to transfer all my photos on to a cd-disk but what one?

Question

Please can you help, and no smug answers! i have crap (personal stuff to me) eating up my hard-drive, yes i managed to defrag-however i want 2 get all pics, to a disk, instead of a floppy, i bought in argos, dvd-rewirters, that said saves pics etc on pc. It didn't even acknowledge its exsistance! now i am off back to argos, before i go and screw up with "their" advice "again" can you guys help?
Its a dell optiplex gx110 windows xp

Answer 1

You need to install the DVD burning software that came with your DVD drive FIRST.

Answer 2

I looked up the Argos catalogue and I can see 2 DVD re-writers - the Philips or Freecom. They both are USB2 external drives and XP should recognise either one when plugged into your PC. The fact that it doesn't may indicate a hardware connection problem: with the cable, the PC's USB port itself, or a faulty drive (I assume you installed the CD that came with the drive).
Have you used any USB devices successfully before? If not, you need to check that it is actually working. If the hardware on the PC checks out, try a different cable, and if that does not help, the drive may be flaky. If you have access to a another PC, you could double check that it will also NOT recognise the drive before you make a trip to Argos. You have 14 days to return it, anyway.

Answer 3

Go to iobot.com and dowmload advanced windowscare v2 personal for free. Once installed this fantastic software will sort all kinds of PC and Harddrive problems. And it easy pesy to used.

Take care xx

Answer 4

I burn to DVD's if I have a ton of pics and videos to back up. Then I can play them in my dvd player too. cd's are typically for music and DVD's are typically used for video. CD's hold 700MB and DVD's hold 4G so they hold about 5X's more. I didn't do the actual math.