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Ok I got Easy CD creator 5.3.5.1 or whatever the newest update is. I want to take stuff I've archived off these CDs and put em onto my new 250 gb Harddrive. How do I does it? Oh yeah, I'm on WinXP home.

Are these audio CD's? If so, then use CDex to rip them to disk. If they are already in compressed format, just copy the files using windows explorer.

Either that's it, or I don't quite understand your question

nah I've archived some anime to these CDs. I tried to just cut paste but it says they're read only and then says that the CD is protected and I can't copy em.

Beowulf wrote:I tried to just cut paste but it says they're read only and then says that the CD is protected and I can't copy em.

Cut/paste or copy/paste? You cant cut/paste from a CD, since it deletes the originals. Copying should work, though.

If the CD is a UDF-formatted CD-RW, you very well can cut/paste from the disc.

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Well, theres two ways of doing this.

1. Hit CTRL A on your keyboard to select everything on the disk and hit CTRL C to copy, navigate to the destination and hit CTRL V to paste.

2. Open up your command prompt and navigate to your CD drive by typing thedriveletter: (where "thedriveletter" represents the actual letter assigned to your CD-RW, such as D or E, etc...) and typing "copy *.* c:\foldernamehere" and wait for it to finish. (this is by far the quickest method)

I hope you did not use that Drag and Copy Program that came with Version 5/6/7(Drag2Disc)

That is a coaster program.

If you can not browse to an Archived disc on a CD-R/RW disc normally using My Computer. Then that is the problem, use that program to get your info off the discs(if it is recoverable). Fianally when your finished, then re-archive using the regualar CD Burning program, and uninstall Drag to Disc(useless)(goes by another name in ver 5 CD"something" lurks on your system tray)

Cd Creator Classic is your friend, Drag to Disc is EVIL

You mean Direct CD Bubba? I hate that damned program. You can't even use Roxio unless you kill it, and its installed by default when you install Roxio. (sounds like lazy programming to me)

thanks pals