copy e-mail folder to cd for back up

[DONTXO]

want to copy an e-mail folder to a cd. the folder is very important legal papers. i do not wish to remove the contents of the folder, i assume that the contents of the folder will remain on the computer along with the rest of a long list of folders, i hope(repeat its a folder in e-mail) !. thanks for any and all help, i'm "not"very knowledgeable in the computer smarts department at all. windows xp home edition. thanks again, don

[terambulan]

Try this:

1.Open ur email folder
2. Open the CD drive

Two windows open

Left klik mouse and drag folder (or contents of folder) onto CD drive. The wizard will then burn the docs.

[DONTXO]

its so simple, but it wont drag and drop on cd drive...the drive disappears...i drug it , the cd drive up and no luck...there are 2 burn choices...real player, it says it not set up to burn...the other is i tune. there is a disc picture among five choices and four windows where you mention two. i know its me but its typical of my luck there is a total of four choices when you open the cd drive. i'm sure it the problem is me, sorry don

[Marcus-2001]

Maybe this might help..........

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup /expert/bridgman_august13.mspx

[camioneur]

The first question is what program do you use for email. If it's Outlook then it's quite easy to do what you want but the copy will not be in a readable format. it will merely be a back up that you can re-import back into Outlook should you have a system failure. If you are on MS Outlook (not Outlook Express) and an unreadable back up is ok then simply export your data file as a pst to your desktop and then burn it from there. far better though to keep it on a pen drive as you can update at will and keep re-writing it. Hope some of this helps a little