afternoon all,preety new to this computer game and having some problems already,i am tryng to save pictures from windows media to disc as a back up(on orders from the mrs).the trouble is i have tried - and + disc's(?) as not sure which one the laptop works on.and am unable to save them as the the writer does not reconise the disc,do i need to formatt or something and if so ,how?
any advice greatfully received.
budha.

Howdy Budha,

Welcome to the boards. A question for you. Are you sure you have a CD-R or a CD-R/W? If it only states CD or CDROM, but does not state R or RW or Recordable or even ReWritable, you may well have a player, and it will burn a disk about as well as a 1988 Sony Diskman.
Secondly, Am I to assume you are using Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP or Vista? Some don't support burning disks in the OS, and require the use of software by the device provider (adaptec ez-cd, Nero). As an example. I have a DVD Burner. Windows will not recognize the disks, I must start the Nero software that came with the drive, before I can recognize or burn a DVD.

Thanks,