"Tassie" wrote in message
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Today, I opened a D drive program (nero) clicking on make data disk, then
opened "my documents" and dragged all the files into the nero window. Then
from my comp, dragged all the files I wanted to the nero win. . . .
After about 10 minutes, a message came up saying: " nero is not
responding."

Nero CD writing software is not the best way to copy
to CD for backup. Better write a batch file to do so,
and segregate (a) programmes & configurations,
(b) data files.

I need to make back-ups because I'm getting a new (second hand) comp.

The easiest way to transfer stuff is to connect the hard drive from
the old PC into the new PC as Hard Drive #2 and then copy over.

1. First you should instal the Operating System afresh on the
new PC and instal your main applications, see
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/w98_restore.html

2. Then put your old hard drive into the new PC. Because
bootable, your old C: drive appears in the new PC as drive D:
(and any others follow in sequence. This is where unique
drive names are useful.)

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)