windows lost my stuff

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I went to move files from the computer to write them on a cd and after i
clicked on "write these files to cd" it "wrote" them the cd popped out and
then i put it back in to make sure that everything had worked out. when i
clicked on the folder i moved, only one thing out of the 183 things i tried
to move, had moved. the rest off it had disappeard. wwhat do i do?

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"Jaymon" <Jaymon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Look in c:\documents and settings\username\cd burning..That is were
> they should go before they get copied to the cdrw drive.
>
> What kind of cd were you using?
> Brushup here:
> http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.php
>
> j;-j
>
> "rkelly" wrote:
>
>> I went to move files from the computer to write them on a cd and
>> after i clicked on "write these files to cd" it "wrote" them the cd
>> popped out and then i put it back in to make sure that everything
>> had worked out. when i clicked on the folder i moved, only one thing
>> out of the 183 things i tried to move, had moved. the rest off it
>> had disappeard. wwhat do i do?

But the XP burning application doesn't actually MOVE the files to that
folder, does it, it just puts a shortcut there, surely?

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"rkelly" <rkelly@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I went to move files from the computer to write them on a cd and
> after i clicked on "write these files to cd" it "wrote" them the cd
> popped out and then i put it back in to make sure that everything had
> worked out. when i clicked on the folder i moved, only one thing out
> of the 183 things i tried to move, had moved. the rest off it had
> disappeard. wwhat do i do?

What exactly are you saying: Are the files not in their original folders or
are the files just not on the CD? BTW, you can't "move" files to a CDR using
the inbuilt XP burning application, you can only copy them AFAIK. To move
files you need to have a CDRW formatted for packet writing which XP doesn't
do.