Insert the disk into the drive. Go to the Control Panel. Find the drive, right click and Format the disk. Then you can drag & drop the file onto the disk.

Hi Gene, I have an Epson scanner I bought in 2006 that scans well and allows me to do several things before scanning. It acted up on me one day and my thinking it broke, ordered an all in one Epson/printer/scanner. The all in one scans much faster and of course has a feature different from the 2006 in that when it scans to the file I choose, when done, it opens that file up for me to find the scanned picture where the other one scans to the file and I have to locate the file to open up to find my picture. Otherwise they all scan as good. It's just the features that change if any. I do all my sizing and fixing in a separate software program called PSP7 and or PSP9.

That will work. I usually prefer to copy to the hard drive and then transfer to a cd though. Just seems to be a more consistent result. Floppy drives and CD drives can have some trouble with their different speeds. But there's nothing wrong with giving it a try. Be sure to test it though, especially before you delete the files from the floppy.

Be aware that a CD-R and CD+R are 'write once' and read many times media. That is, once a apace on the disk has been written to, it is no longer available for writing. You can delete a file, but the space it occupied will not be available anymore. Now this part, I'm not to sure about - I'd have to do some checking - but, I recall that a space is reserved for the directory which is about 50 KB. Anytime the disk is 'opened' and new files added, a new directory must be written when the disk is closed. This new directory gets written into ther reserved space and the space where the old directory was gets marked off limits. After awhile, the disk runs out of reserved space for directories and can longer accept new files because there is no more "new" unwritten space available either for new directories or for files. Clicking on "properties" will show the disk not full when in fact it has no more 'new' space to write to. CR-R and CD+R work best for a one time mass file transfer, i.e., 20 files are written to CD from a hard drive in one drag-and-drop opertion. Or maybe, a folder (containing a bunch of files) is dragged and dropped to the CD. One should check for the amount of space needed for the files, else the copy process will balk before the entire set of files have been transferred (when the file transfer runs out of space). CDRW refers to read and write. It operates just like any other magnetic media, e'g', floppy disk and hard drives. The space on a CDRW can be erased and written to again. It does have a limited re-write time, however. Any one area can be rewritten from 1000 to 10,000 times and then becomes 'worn out'. I have heard arguments both pro and con about which is the best media for archiving - CR R or CDRW. The CD R proponents say that since any specific region on the disk is written only once, it will retain the data best of all; Others say that a CDRW can do just as well so long as it has not been overwritten on a regular basis. I tend to use CDRW for everything and format before using. I keep a few formatted disks on hand. In that way, I don't have to think about a bunch of stuff when I suddently need a CD - I just grab one out of my formatted stash and go.