starchild
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It seems even more confusing trying to get it to DO something!
I tried copying a music CD to see if it worked (and the program said "copy another cd exactly") the hourglass came up and it said "reading cd speed" (or something) I didn't know what to expect.. 30 mins later.... I hit alt, ctrl, delete and it said "cd writer not responding".
So, I ended task.
Then I put a blank in and used DIRECT CD WIZARD and it said the cd had to be formatted. Do they all?
I did that and it went off. LIke that was it's main function.
Someone (on this board, I think) told me I could save my entire MY DOCUMENTS folder on the CD, if it wasn't over 700 MB.
But how?
I tried opening MY DOCUMENTS (from the cd writer program) and selected all the folders in it, and almost all of them came up saying they couldn't be saved, the file names were too long, "over 110 charactors". The names included the long title of c:\ my documents (etc)
One program said I could "drag" what I wanted onto it to save. I think it was the DIRECT CD wizard, but where do I drag it from?
I've tried going into my computer and finding the folder MY DOCUMENTS and doing it from there.
I guess I thought it would be on the right click menu like "send to... E DRIVE" (like it does A drive, etc)
I guess I will figure it out.
The HP instruction seem kind of vague and skimpy.
I'd like to save MY DOCS just for a backup, and to practice.
Also, copy music CDs.
Is there a time it takes to first READ and then COPY?
What shoudl this be? It's a 4X4X6 (I think).
thanks,
Carrie
I tried copying a music CD to see if it worked (and the program said "copy another cd exactly") the hourglass came up and it said "reading cd speed" (or something) I didn't know what to expect.. 30 mins later.... I hit alt, ctrl, delete and it said "cd writer not responding".
So, I ended task.
Then I put a blank in and used DIRECT CD WIZARD and it said the cd had to be formatted. Do they all?
I did that and it went off. LIke that was it's main function.
Someone (on this board, I think) told me I could save my entire MY DOCUMENTS folder on the CD, if it wasn't over 700 MB.
But how?
I tried opening MY DOCUMENTS (from the cd writer program) and selected all the folders in it, and almost all of them came up saying they couldn't be saved, the file names were too long, "over 110 charactors". The names included the long title of c:\ my documents (etc)
One program said I could "drag" what I wanted onto it to save. I think it was the DIRECT CD wizard, but where do I drag it from?
I've tried going into my computer and finding the folder MY DOCUMENTS and doing it from there.
I guess I thought it would be on the right click menu like "send to... E DRIVE" (like it does A drive, etc)
I guess I will figure it out.
The HP instruction seem kind of vague and skimpy.
I'd like to save MY DOCS just for a backup, and to practice.
Also, copy music CDs.
Is there a time it takes to first READ and then COPY?
What shoudl this be? It's a 4X4X6 (I think).
thanks,
Carrie