This question was addressed recently if you look in the archives. External floppy drives are available for a few dollars. You just plug them in to one of the USB ports on your computer and then you can continue to back-up to a floppy disk. Terry ----- Original Message ----- From: <HRETNUH@aol.com> To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 11:41 PM Subject: [PAF-5] Back-up to CD's > Can anyone tell me how to back up my files to a CD ? I have tried going > to > file, backup, save to, CD_RW Drive E . It says the E drive is not > Accessable. Someone said it is my CD so I bought a new one. Still the > same. I > thought it might be my computer so I I went to the Family history Library > and It > did the same thing and nobody there knew how to do it. I have back ups > on > floppys but need them on CD's for new Computer, HELP!!! Thanks Becky > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > PAF @ FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service > http://www.familysearch.org/eng/paf/ > >

This is a common problem that seems obvious once you understand how it works. Programs such as PAF *CAN* *NOT* run your CD burner -- they have no ability to set up the CD burner and go through the CD burning process. You have open a CD burning program and, from there, choose the PAF (or any other) files you want to burn to the CD. I have Windows XP and I actually find it simpler to use windows than my CD-burner program (Nero) to burn my backups to CD. First I open up "My Documents" folder and browse to the files I want to back up. Then I open a NEW "My Documents" folder and browse to my CD-writer drive (in my system, it is the D:\ drive). Then I just drag the files I want to burn from their box to the D:\ box. I can continue to browse and drag files from any folder on my computer until I have dragged all the files that I want to burn to my CD. Then I simply click on the "Write these files to CD" link on the top of the left-side task bar. There are a few steps to follow, but you are told what to do at each step. Please let us know if you were successful. Sherrie > ----- Original Message ----- From: <HRETNUH@aol.com> > To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 11:41 PM > Subject: [PAF-5] Back-up to CD's > > >> Can anyone tell me how to back up my files to a CD ? I have tried >> going to >> file, backup, save to, CD_RW Drive E . It says the E drive is not >> Accessable. Someone said it is my CD so I bought a new one. Still >> the same. I >> thought it might be my computer so I I went to the Family history >> Library and It >> did the same thing and nobody there knew how to do it. I have back >> ups on >> floppys but need them on CD's for new Computer, HELP!!! Thanks Becky