[j60hnt]

Hello wonder if you can help.

I am using Office XP - Word. How do I save text documents to a rewritable disc? Used to use floppy 3.5 inch but have just bought a new laptop that does not have floppy drive. Want to save new text documents on a regular basis to the same rewritable disc in the same way as used to save to floppy. Unable to 'Save As'. It comes up with 'error - the disc is read only'. Any ideas????

 

[Dan O]

You need a CD-RW disk and it may need formating before it can be used. Another option is a flash drive, which are pretty cheap and connect to a USB port. I purchased a 128MB flash for $30.

 

[sprocket]

hi

does your laptop come with a CDRW drive by any chance?
if its just a CD-rom drive, u won't be able to save onto any rewritable CD at all as it only allows you to read/extract off data from the media and not burn data to the media for saving.

Unlike saving to a floopy where u just copy it to the drive, to save your documents to a rewritable CD, you need to burn it using softwares like Nero or Easy CD creator etc (that normally comes bundled with a CDRW drive)...

 

[sprocket]

yeap i agree with Dan O...

a thumb drive or flash drive is a cheap and good alternative for saving and storing text files... and pretty much allow you to plug into another computer with USB port to share the data as well...

 

[Dan O]

Most laptops come with a CD-RW and XP can be used alone to write CD-RWs.

I was really surprised it could.

 

[sprocket]

Will remember that
still using good ole W2K....

 

[Dan O]

Sprocket,

XP is full of features that are surprising.

You do need Nero, Easy CD creator, or ... for advanced functions, such as music conversion.

 

[j60hnt]

it has cd-rw but when you save to a floppy you can go back to it and mondify the text and save as and then when you open floppy its all there but it seems you are unable to do this with the the cd-rewriteable disc you can only copy many file etc and erase is thi how they work??because floppys are going out and what elae can we do

 

[sprocket]

Totally Agree Dan O

 

[sprocket]

usb thumbdrive/ flash drive would be a good alternative as recommended by Dan O...

works like a floppy....