If anyone can help with this I would be very grateful. When I
right-click an icon on desktop (ms word / notepad item) and 'send to'
.... the option to send it to CD Drive isnt an option! .... options are
to floppy,desktop shortcut, zipped...etc ........I'm usually able to
save my stuff to disk but cant now.

Please reply or e-mail me at

Thanks

Dave


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daveboylan

You can always try saving it to CD in 2 other ways:

1) Open up the CD by going into "My Computer" (assuming Windows
environment. Then drag the file icon you want to save over to the CD
window. (If you don't see the CD drive when you open My Computer, then
you have a more serious problem with the BIOS and/or the hardware)

2) Open the file (eg open the Word file in Word). Then go to File-Save
As... and resave the file on the CD (The top drop-down list -- "Save
in:" -- will allow you to get into the CD-drive. Again, if you don't
see it here, then you have a more serious issue).

Part of the problem you may be experiencing is that the computer may
not know that you have a blank CD in the drive. Most CDRWs come with
interaction software that allows you to interact with the drive. And
most of these software packages have DirectCD-type of application which
lets you add / remove files to and from the "CD" until you actually
write (finalize) the disc (after saving a file to CD, you may be asked
whether you want to save this so that other computers can read the
CD... this is finalizing the disc and practically this means that the
disc becomes read-only and can no longer be written to). Once you have
actually written to the disc, unless the CD is a rewritable disc, you
cannot add / remove any more files without corrupting the files already
on the disc. Thus if you have written to the CD in your drive
previously, the CD will no longer read as being empty and you can no
longer write out to that disc (Even if you only wrote 1 file of 10Kb in
size! Yes, the CD -should- have near 700MB of space, but once you've
written to the CD, trying to write more could corrupt previous files
written to it). As a quick troubleshoot, you may want to insert a new
blank CD and see if it works.

Hope this helps


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Pyth007

If you want to be able to use your documents, when working within Word, act
as if your floppy drive does not exist! (This applies to CDRW/CDR drives as
well.)
Don't use Word to:
Open a document on a floppy
Print a document on a floppy
Edit a document on a floppy
Save a document to a floppy (not even a copy)

Word regularly trashes documents on floppy drives!

Instead, work on the document using your hard drive. Copy it back and forth
using Windows.

I know that for some with shared computers (libraries, schools) this is a
tough prescription. All I can recommend for that is to use a brand new
formatted disk each time you save and don't do any editing.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"daveboylan" wrote in message
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If anyone can help with this I would be very grateful. When I
right-click an icon on desktop (ms word / notepad item) and 'send to'
... the option to send it to CD Drive isnt an option! .... options are
to floppy,desktop shortcut, zipped...etc ........I'm usually able to
save my stuff to disk but cant now.

Please reply or e-mail me at

Thanks

Dave


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daveboylan