This may sound like a dumb question for most of you Please instruct. I want to copy a file that is on my C drive to a disc that I will put in my E drive.The original to stay in the C drive. I do not want to drag and drop, that I know.I only want to make a copy to file away from home Tx Humphrey

OK, I'm confused.. You have a file, You want to put a "copy" of that file in your E: (I assume cd drive?) Do you want that file to update automaticly? Or copy when you want? I guess what I'm trying to say.. We need a bit more information. ------ Get FireFox You'll be happy you did.

I saved a file in PDF format on my C drive.I now want to make a copy of it on a cd using my E drive. I do not want to update automaticly. This is just as a back up. The file is very important. Sorry if I confused you. Humphrey

You can either highlight the file and press CTRL-C then go to e: and press CTRL-V. OR: copy c:\somepath\filename.pdf e: M2 If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

Drag and Drop is the easiest way. When you do this from drive to drive, you are actually just copying. It will not be removed from the original drive. You will end up with the file on the original drive and a copy on the drive you dragged it to! Tom C.

When in doubt simply right click and drag so when you release you will get the context menu with different options to choose like copy or move. Also, this CD on the E: drive needs to be a CD Burner with CDR or CDRW media in it. So depending on which burner software you have would dictate how you can get a copy onto the CD. For example: with Nero you would burn it to CD-R or with CD-RW you could drag and drop it onto the CD using InCD. Bryan

Yeah, Tom & Bryan, But he said he did not want to drag & dribble. M2 If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.