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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: cav58d on August 10, 2006, 02:40:22 PM
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I am trying to put a photo album of pictures that are stored in "my pictures" in windows XP onto a hard disk because I have no cd's...I am having a lot of trouble doing it though...Can someone please give me a quick walk through ASAP! thanks
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Is there a joke somewhere that I don't see?
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Hmmm... if I understand correctly, you've installed another hard-drive, but you can't copy from one drive to the other?
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No, I am asking a serious question....Last night I took pictures for my friends band at one of their shows...I uploaded the pictures onto my computer, and want to get them to my friend...I dont have any blank cd's, only a couple old Hard Disk's...(I dont know if its even possible to put pics on here)....I put the hard disc into my computer and wait for something to happen but nothing does...I've tried copying the picture album and dragging it into the A drive (hard drive), but I get no reaction...What am I doing wrong? Is it even possible to put photo's on a hard disc, or can they only hold data?
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I doubt you will be able to get more than 3 or 4 pics on a floppy disk. Does your friends PC have a floppy drive?
You may be better off taking the camera over to your friends house and uploading the pics on his PC too.
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Originally posted by cav58d
No, I am asking a serious question....Last night I took pictures for my friends band at one of their shows...I uploaded the pictures onto my computer, and want to get them to my friend...I dont have any blank cd's, only a couple old Hard Disk's...(I dont know if its even possible to put pics on here)....I put the hard disc into my computer and wait for something to happen but nothing does...I've tried copying the picture album and dragging it into the A drive (hard drive), but I get no reaction...What am I doing wrong? Is it even possible to put photo's on a hard disc, or can they only hold data?
you mean a floppy? (little case with a metal door on it that some people think are "hard" but inside is actually a floppy)
they hold 1.44 MB each, depending on the picture size, you might 1 or 2 pics on each disk.
put it in the drive, goto my computer, right click drive A (and ONLY drive A )and chose "format"
format the disk (will lose any data on it) then you can copy / paste to it. just double click A and it will open and should show nothing on it.
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I've heard many computer parts referred to as the hard disk in my day but this one is priceless. Thanks for the chuckle.
Your better off going to your local Circuit City or other electronics store and getting your self a portable USB flash drive. Looks like a keychain. You should be able to pick up a 256MB one for about twenty bucks. It will hold a lot more pictures than a floppy disk. Depending on the picture resolution, you might not be able to get even one picture on a floppy.
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I think Cav actually means a hard disk. You need to go to bios and enable it there so that the computer can detect it. If the new drive is not formatted you need to format it before you can store anything in it.
Ed. ignore
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Ed. I, too, recommend a USB drive. Small and very handy and no trouble installing.
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You'll need to go into the BIOS after installing the hard drive and force your controller IDE/SATA/PATA/SCSI (whichever you have) to recognize it first. If it already contains a partition and the partition is healthy and recognizeable by the OS you have you merely assign it a drive letter via the computer management MMC and drag the files over via windows explorer. If the partition is not compatible (like NTFS on Win98) then you'll need to format it first, frankly I recommend formatting it anyway though.
{edit} Oooops, didn't read far enough did I?
Yeah, the flash drives are a good option here, I don't think you are ready to install an internal HDD yet. Don't forget you'll probably need to assign a drive letter to the flash drive too, unless you install 3rd party bloatware that does this automagically. Right-click on "my computer", choose manage, go to "storage", then "disk management".
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Originally posted by ChickenHawk
I've heard many computer parts referred to as the hard disk in my day but this one is priceless. Thanks for the chuckle.
I've had many people call those little things hard discs before. especially when they first came out and people were used to the 5 1/4 floppies.
heck I still remember and have worked with 8" floppies :O :lol
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I think you'll have a far easier time just getting a memory flash drive stick. They come in sizes up to 2 gig now and are fairlu inexpensive. I use them for transfering files between systems now. All you need is a USB port to plug into.
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Originally posted by cav58d
No, I am asking a serious question....Last night I took pictures for my friends band at one of their shows...I uploaded the pictures onto my computer, and want to get them to my friend...I dont have any blank cd's, only a couple old Hard Disk's...(I dont know if its even possible to put pics on here)....I put the hard disc into my computer and wait for something to happen but nothing does...I've tried copying the picture album and dragging it into the A drive (hard drive), but I get no reaction...What am I doing wrong? Is it even possible to put photo's on a hard disc, or can they only hold data?
1st it's a floppy disk , not a hard disk.
2nd why don't you upload directly from your camera on your friend computer ?
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I have installed a second HDD into this computer, it read it perfectly
But for something like that, you are better off getting a USB jump drive. It will work great as long as you plug it into the right hole (they dont go into the floppy slot!)
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screw this...i just brought my camera to his house lmao
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Doh!:confused: :rofl
Regards,
Sun
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ok, in the future, find the pic you want to copy, highlight it, and right click on it. Then you select copy, this 'takes a picture' of the file. Then navigate to whatever drive or folder you want to copy the pic to and right click, then select paste. If there is enough room and if the drive has been properly prepared, you will have copied the pic to the drive.