HELP! I want to copy pictures from PC to disk - HELP!!!!!!  |
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| I have spent the last 4 hours straight trying to deal with getting my photos onto a disk. Please help me if you can! I need to make a disk of all my photos (instead of the old fashioned negatives, and also to copy and send to others). I used MIcrosoft Picture It to crop and size and all that, then save the photo to my hard drive under My Pictures in My Documents. I open them on the hard drive, and there they are so I know that much is done. Now, I want to copy all the photos onto a disk to save (instead of negatives or many photo albums) and also to make additional send disks to send to others. Now, I tried copy and paste (choose folders I want and click "copy" and then open the CD drive E: and click "paste". It gives me something about "thumb" is not recognized by this program. Not a clue what that is. And it only copies some of the photos, not all. I have tried a CD Creator program, and although it came with my PC when I bought it, and had it on here at one time, it now says it is not compaitble with this version of windows (XP) I have done no changes to it in anyway. I did find out that I have to use a DVD disk as there is not enough room on a CD disk at least that is what it told me. I am copying maybe 100 pictures. 780 mg is what the CD-RW is. I tried a DVD with 4.7gb -is that enough? How many pictures will the CD hold? If it holds like 50 regular size (4x6) prints, that will be okay, but I con't know how many it will hold. So, any suggestions on how to copy from the hard drive to disk? Which disk to use, and how to copy and burn it? I am a novice so tell me in those wonderful "words for dummies" so I can understand! I have WinXP. Thanks so much | | | | | |
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1. miracleman2008 (155)
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4 years ago
| | I`m not good at these things ether.but I have a nero program and it explains every step to burn.you need to put your problem in the computer interest.part of mylot. theirs a guy on their thats real good with things like that,he probly will respond to your trouble. | | | | | | |
coffeebreak (7187)
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4 years ago
| | I did put it in the computer interest. Is that not where you found me? How do I find Nero program? | | | |
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2. karenkaren (172)
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4 years ago
| | nero is used to burn data from your pc to disks, i guess you can search for it in the net and just donwload it,, anyways there should be a nero installer when you purchase your disk writer, or is your disk drive a writer or just a reader? you should check that out first. | | | | | | |
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3. miracleman2008 (155)
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4 years ago
| | Call around to computer stores ,or try best buy, or staples.to find nero program. | | | | | | |
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4. mayurnagekar (98)
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4 years ago
| | heyy buddy, try using the nero software when you trying to copy it into your cd or dvd. normally a cd of 780MB would store 1000-2000 pics if the pic size is between 250 KB.try downloading the nero software and make sure that to write it on a cd you must have a cd writer and not the normal cd rom. and if you are gonna write it on the dvd rom then you must have a dvd writer. i am sure the problem would be solved with this one. to download nero's latest version, use the great google. | | | | | | |
coffeebreak (7187)
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4 years ago
| | "normally a cd of 780MB would store 1000-2000 pics if the pic size is between 250 KB" I only copied about 50-75 and it wouldn't take them on the CD 700mg. I don't know the size of the pics - i just sized them to 4x6 in my photo editing program. Is that to many mg? If I size them smaller, and want reprints I'd have to go back in and size it larger? How does that effect the quality of the photo being sized so much? SHould I be saving them at a smaller size? I do have a new DVD/CD writer drive | | | |
Asylum (3592)
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4 years ago
| | Reducing the size of the photo will definitely reduce the quality because it will contain less detail. There should be no problem with an image of 6 X 4". Also I cannot imagine how the photo size could be 10Mb or more irrespective of the file format used. If you right click on a photo and select Properties it will tell you the file format and the size of the image itself. | | | |
coffeebreak (7187)
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4 years ago
| | I don't want to loose quality but if 4x6 is not a problem, I don't know what it is. Do you know, generally speaking if a CD with 700mg, how many 4x6 photos it should hole? I can do the DVD with 4.7 gb if I need to. I just want the best quality and figure out how to do it so as to keep up with it all as far as adding more to a disk until it is full. | | | |
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5. lordwarwizard (10625)
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4 years ago
| | You have to know what your drive is first and what kind of disc it accepts. Some are combo drives, some can only accept cds, some dvds. Being able to read is different from being able to write. Yours is a writer? If yes, doing what you did or using the default program should work... Try www.download.com and search for the program you want using keywords such as "cd writer" or something. Go for the free ones if possible and filter for Windows XP only. Thumb drives are not Cd drive E. They will usually appear like a harddisk icon, probably drive D (if you only have a C drive) or F for your case. | | | | | | |
coffeebreak (7187)
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4 years ago
| | My drive is a DVD/CD writer - brand new -just replaced with warrenty by HP. Will try www.download and see what I can find. Thumb drives - haven't a clue as to what it means, I was coping the pics and a "message" box opened saying this - I was coping from C drive to E drive(writer) when this happened. My memory stick drive is F and my CD drive is E | | | |
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6. atifshahzad1 (293)
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4 years ago
| | to coppy some thing from ur pc to any disk is not so difficult. u have to do the folloiwing steps i think so First of all u have to open the folder or file which u want to copy to ur disk. secondly, u have to do the right clik at it. Thirdly, select the copy option from there. Fourthly, open the disk where u want to past it. the finally right click there and choose the pase option from there. That is all u have to do dear. | | | | | | |
coffeebreak (7187)
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4 years ago
| | That's what I was doing and it didn't work. First said I had to much for the disk then just wouldn't copy them. I was coping from C to E. | | | |
atifshahzad1 (293)
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4 years ago
| | i think it is not so difficult and it may not be happening because of sofme visrus or u may doing somethsing wrong. and then u have done it or not. | | | |
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7. busta1 (838)
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4 years ago
| | well you can just put in a blink cd in your pc and drag and drop onto the cd. | | | | | | |
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8. Asylum (3592)
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4 years ago
| | Providing that you have a CD writer drive, and if your computer came with CD witing software then it should have, you can burn a CD using Windows XP. Place a recordable CD in the drive and try the following process: Right click on the folders that you want to copy and from the scrolling menu that appears select Send To and then CD drive. You should see a pop up balloon at the bottom which says “You have files waiting to be written to a CD”. Click on that message and a folder will open showing the folders that you have selected. Continue adding folders until you have selected everything that you want. IN the folder for CD writing there should be a column of icon to the left, click on the one that says “Write these files to CD”. This will open the CD writing wizard. Type in the name you want for the CD, such as Coffeebreak’s Photos or My Holiday and click on Next. The name that you enter here will appear as the title if you play it on another computer or via a DVD player. Windows should now write the CD for you, so when the process is finished just click Finish to close the window. I do not use the Windows utilities very often, but this process should work fine. | | | | | | |
coffeebreak (7187)
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4 years ago
| | I've written this down and will try it. ANother problem is that I'll follow instructions but my PC doesn't have the prompt msgs, that (in this case) yours does. I'll go along and then the option you say to click is not on the page anywhere! I have XP nad haven't done anything to change or alter it, but this happens so often. But I'll give it the old college try and hope it works! | | | |
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| 9. ghreeb_admi (6)
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4 years ago
| | AoA. u should try writing drive letter in web browsre. this will open ur drive in form of web page. then if u left click on the file u want to copy it will open a download dialog box save one picture using this method to some other place and try copying it using normal method if it works then u can copy all pictures using the same method. As for size of pictures try changing the format of pictures to JPEG or some other this will reduce the size without affecting resolution and the detail lost will not be visible to normal eye. | | | | | | |
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10. arkaf61 (5809)
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4 years ago
| | I use nero to do it. It works fine for me. No were you saving the pictures themselves or the thumbs icons? Because they are different things. Thumbs are generated by windows if I"m not mistaken every time you open and save pictures - in this case - they contain information from the files and help to open then faster when you want to see them again. If you were trying to save those as opposed to the images themselves then maybe that is the problem. YOu should be able to save quite a lot of pictures on a cd - it depends on their size but still you still should be able to certainly save 100. How did you save them after editing? THey often are saved as bmap, jpg or gif although there are a lot of other formats. Some formats take more space them others, but I don't see any reason why a CD wouldn't be enough to store 100 pictures even if they are in albums. I sent a cd to my mom with over 150 pictures from my kids just last week. | | | | | | |
coffeebreak (7187)
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4 years ago
| | I edit the pics in Picture IT 2000. THen I save them to folders in hard drive in .jpg format Then "thumb" thing - haven't a clue as to what it is talking about. I saved them a .jpg and then went and did the highlight the ones I want to copy, and did a "copy" nad the went to the disk drive (E) and clicke d "paste" and that is when this thumb thing showed up and asked me to retry, skip or cancel. It did it on some, but not all. 100 per CD would be perfect. If you do it, could you (if you have time) jot down your steps? I just don't think this is so hard, but for some reason my PC is not working with me! | | | |
coffeebreak (7187)
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4 years ago
| | So I went to www.download and choose the 4 star rated program of DeepBurner. Downloaded it and tried to copy my pictures to CD-RW It tells me there is not enough space - the CD had 680 mg and I need 1.3 gb. So I take the CD out and put in a DVD-RW with 4.7gb and it tells me the disk is not writable (it says it IS writeable on the box) . It also says a writable CD is a compact disc that can be converted to a convential or audto CD by a CD recording drive (CD-R or CD-RW) My disk drive say it is DVD writer /CD Writer and it says on the front on the tower "DVD+/-RW/CD-RW" and "double layer 16x DVD+/-R/RW drive with CD writer capabilities". ON the CD writer is says DVD Writer/CD Writer What kind of disk do I need? I asked at hte office supply store and they told me DVD -RW is the best over all as it accomodates -R and +R. Same with CD +/-RW disks. So I have both, now and still, they are not acceptable. I use windows XP and Compaq Presario. I saved my pics to hard drive via Picture IT 2000 and they are on my hard drive in folders. I'm dying here! | | | |
Asylum (3592)
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4 years ago
| | The easy way around this is to split the photos into 2 groups and burn 2 Cds from them. I do not know the software program that you refer to, but you could check whether the setting is for CD or DVD. Most writing programs need to have CD or DVD selected, whichever you are using at the time. As for the DVD itself, if your drive is DVD+/DVD- then it should be able to use any disk. | | | |
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