Help please with saving data?

Question

Would like to save my data from pc onto a cd as pc has to go back to shop and everything may get wiped.
I have lots of data, important documents lots and lots of pictures, some sentimental and would be absolutely devastated if anything was lost.
Now i have saved data successfully before a while back but i have forgotton how to do it, i know to insert cd, then add files, i do not have nero and don't want the hassle of downloading it but i have the sonic, i know how to get to the option where i can add data, but my question is i have sooooooo many individual folders it would take years and years to add them all tediously one by one by one, can anybody please tell me and by the way please explain it to me like i am 10 years old, as i find technical stuff very hard to understand and i don't really want to keep popping questions back and forth because i don't understand so really if you can explain to me like i am 10, then i think i may understand.
With Thanks

Answer 1

The best thing to do at first is collect all your files that you want to keep and put them into a single folder. This way instead of finding all the files when you go to burn them, you have them already collected and ready. Just find the file you want, then copy it and paste it in your save folder.

However I would suggest you use pendrives instead. Instead of going through all the hassle of burning files, getting the program to work, hoping the cd was burnt successfully, just plug in the pendrive and copy all your files to it. It's much easier than a cd, you can have more space than a cd (dvd space is available on pendrives) and you can add more files or delete files at a later date if needed.

Answer 2

It will be a piece of cake - old fashioned cut/paste/copy if you use a flashdrive instead of a CD. I switched from CDs to flashdrive because of the ease of doing so and the prices are coming way down. Here, our Sunday paper contains ads from Office Depot, Office Max, Circuit City, and Best Buy. All have flashdrives - like 1gb for $9.99. No formatting necessary, no burning - just plug and go (if your Windows is up-to-date). WindowsXP should have the driver for any flashdrive you buy and if not, it can be easily downloaded from the manufacturer's site.

You probably should have some external storage anyway. Your PC could crash at any time and you would be left with nothing.

Answer 3

DJ, Sonic, Roxio, and even freeware cd/dvd burning programs you can download off the net will let you drag and drop entire folders onto the pane that tells Sonic what to burn onto the CD. For example, if you have 300 files and 100 pics in My Documents folder, you can just drag/drop the My Documents folder and have Sonic burn that. If you have stuff in more than one place (it sounds like you do) you can drag and drop more folders just like the My Documents folder.

If its too tedious to do this one by one, this is the solution I'd recommend.

Answer 4

there is no easy way if u have a lot of files. just insert the disc, open the cd drive from my computer and max it. opeen my doc. and R- click - copy or drag the files u have to the cd max folder. there is lot more 2 this but hope it will hlp. get an external hard drive.

Answer 5

Save the data to your SD Card and delete your Wii Data play a new game, and whenyou get bored, copy the SD card data back to the Wii

Answer 6

Simple.

You need to create a back up of your drive or the files that you want to keep.

Assuming that you use MS Windows XP : -
Go to Start =>Programs=>Accessories=>System tools=>Backup.

Just follow the 'Wizard' to select the files you need to 'backup' and let the computer do the rest.

Answer 7

Yes, But i would suggest you that you should Buy a external hard drive For example 160 GB / 256 GB and save all your data on the hard drive it doesn't cost alto its much easy-er
Enjoy

Answer 8

if u have a burner installed, right click on each file to burn and send it over to burner, save to "disk"..make sure you assemble all the files for burning, or make sure u have rewritable disks if not.