Hi - my name is Alan and I am a NOOB.

I have a digital camera and I have been saving pictures to my hard drive. I have ad CD/DVD drive that can burn cds/dvds.

The operating software is Windows XP and the hardware is a dell system.

I have tried to copy my pictures from the hard drive to a disk (DVD-R) and follow the instructions - the first step is to format the disk. When I try to do that the system gives me a message to install the disk even though I have already installed it. Somehow it does not seem to recognize the DVD-R format. My nephew visited once and was able to do it but I did not understand how he did it.

Any help would be appreciated - I am moving and want to save the pic on disk before moving. Also - can you then put it in a dvd player and see the pictures?

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Alan the Noob.

Some DVD burners have issues with -R media. Have you tried a DVD+R? You may achieve better results with a +R media.

Also, do you have enough photos warrant using a DVD? That's a lot of storage, and with the average point and shoot digital camera, you can fit a few hundered to a few thousand photos on a CD (depending on the quality that the photos were taken in IE. high, medium, low etc.). You may want to try burning them on a CD and go from there. Worst case scenario is to put all your photos on multiple CD's. Note that most DVD players (for tv's, not computers) will recognize a CD with pictures on it and let you browse through them. There's also software that will let you create a "slideshow" and put some music to listen to. If you want to take the time to learn it, you can also use Windows movie maker to do it.

Hope it helps.

Thanks!

I will give it a shot.