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[Juliet Smith]

I'm ready to rip my hair out. I just got married and my photographer told me to copy the DVD of proofs. Usually a simple thing to do but my hard drive crashed a week before the wedding. I had it replaced but ever since I can't burn DVDs by copying folders to the E drive. My duo stick won't even work in it. Is there another way to burn my wedding photos through dvd ?

[AnnaT]

What platform you are using? Mac or Windows? Windows XP or Vista. If Vista, you could use the Windows DVD Maker, get very professional-looking DVDs. There are also many tutorials online to help you if you are not familiar with Windows DVD Maker. For XP, many photo to dvd software can do that. Just search google for your favorite one. I've used one called Wondershare Movie Story. Not bad, easily turning photos to slideshow and burn onto DVD.

anyway, google is your good friend.

[lesl.]

Yes Juliet, take a stab at that.

[azwestdevil72]

I'm ready to rip my hair out. I just got married and my photographer told me to copy the DVD of proofs. Usually a simple thing to do but my hard drive crashed a week before the wedding. I had it replaced but ever since I can't burn DVDs by copying folders to the E drive. My duo stick won't even work in it. Is there another way to burn my wedding photos through dvd ?

Hard to diagnose without knowing what operating system you are on, and I am making assumptions here:

First thing I would do is verify your computer has a DVD-RW ( read\write) drive, and not just a DVD ROM (read only)\CDRW. In other words, you might check to see that you have a drive that can burn CDs and DVDs, not just CDs, especially if your computer is older.

If you do have a dvd burner, you may want to make sure t is working correctly, or ask someone you know who can, to do it for you.

Assuming all is good to go, double check the size of the data (picture folder) you are trying to burn to DVD, and make sure it is not too big for your DVD. For example, most DVD-Rs are 4.7 GB, and if the folder you are trying to copy to it is bigger than that, it won't fit.

If trying to make a movie or copy photos (IE in JPEG or Bitmap format, etc) to a blank DVD, I recommend only using a "one-time" burn DVD, like a DVD-r or DVD+r, not a rewritable blank DVD.

If you are using a Mac and you know you can burn DVDs, here is a link to a tutorial on using iDVD
http://www.apple.com...ovies/idvd.html

This video on iPhoto 09 might be helpful to see, too:
http://www.apple.com...tour/large.html

If you have Vista with a DVD-RW drive, Windows DVD maker is fairly user friendly, like AnnaT said, and there is documentation on google.

If you have Windows XP or older, and had to reinstall your Operating System on the new Hard drive, you may have to install CD\DVD burning software, especially if you are using Windows XP or older, and I would recommend Nero burning software, if you have to buy it. I think it is like $40 at fry's electronics or Best Buy. If you have a computer like HP or Dell and have reinstall disks, you may already have the dvd burning software on a reinstall disk and you just need to install onto your computer. For example, Dells come with Roxio and or PowerDVD reinstall disks, in addition to a windows reinstall disk and driver install disks.

Hope that helps.

[donald]

sorry azwest, unless they post again, they are spambots.



spambots are getting better and better each time.


if they aren't spambots, please speak up soon.

[The Real Jeffrey Lebowski]

Yes Juliet, take a stab at that.

[azwestdevil72]

sorry azwest, unless they post again, they are spambots.



spambots are getting better and better each time.


if they aren't spambots, please speak up soon.

DOH!

I didn't suspect that. Now I know!

[JRC]

this is totally fucked up.
SPAM bots are getting too smart.
All talkin' to each other an' shot.

Soon as they figure a way to hack that # of posts account thing, we're all doomed.
I won't know what's real any more.

I BELIEVE IN NOTHING DAMN YOU!
MY GOD IS NOT A SPAMBOT!
NOOOOoooooooo

[raubhimself]

how do we know who is a spam bot and who isn't? can any of us assuredly say we are not spambots?

someone call Deckard, sheesh.

[mancopter]

how do we know who is a spam bot and who isn't? can any of us assuredly say we are not spambots?

I say we gather up blood samples and stick a red hot wire into each sample.

When it get's to raub's....I mean the infected sample, it will freak the fuck out and try to kill us.

[donald]

umm.......FAP?

we have a winner

[mancopter]

Can we still kill raub, just to be safe?

[raubhimself]

fine

[mancopter]

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