Newbie with download question

First of all, let me say thanks. I went through a battle with malware some years back on this computer and would not have solved it without this site. I followed the instructions posted on here and that took care of it. Now to my problem.

I'm trying to download some of the antivirus applications to a CD so that I can transfer them to another computer with malware problems, (one that won't access the internet presently.) I can download to the C directory but not the D. I'm not a geek so what I'm saying is that I can download to the computer directly but not to a disk. It keeps telling me that I don't have permission to do this and I need to contact the computer administrator. Well I'm logged in as the computer administrator so I don't get it. I've went through all the Windows help files and they just don't explain things well. BTW the computer is a Dell running Windows 2000 and I have the Sygate firewall if that means anything.

In short, if I could just get the necessary programs onto a disk I think I could fix the other computer. Any help is greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Charles.

 

let me see if i understand you correctly..are you trying to download the files directly to a disk?

If so, you cant do that - thats why the error messages keep popping up.
Is drive D a re-writable drive? can you burn things on to cd's with it?
If you can that's your best option.

If not, download them to your hard drive then copy them to floppies.

In most instances you cannot download directly to a drive (unless its C: ).

I hope this helps

 

Yes, you stated my problem correctly. Maybe my D drive just won't let me burn things. I have what I need on the C drive, and tried copying files from there. I put in a CD-R disk, went through the steps to copy files and an error says: "Cannot copy (file): Files on this CD-ROM drive are read-only. You cannot copy or move files over to this CD-ROM drive." Which is why I had the bright idea to get them directly off the internet.

I thought about downloading onto floppies, but the infected computer is a Dell Inspiron 1200 without an A drive (as far as I can tell). So I'm thinking my best option now is to get someone else to burn a disk with the programs I need.?

I'm really not an idiot; I just haven't had much of a use for some of these things before now. Thanks for the quick reply.

 

noone is calling you an idiot (you should see some of the questions I asked LOL). I can think of a few things that might help.

Read-only usually refers to documents and or spreadsheets that are protected not programs. If this isnt the case you can try this.

To undo read only, right-click the file and select Properties (or Alt+double click) from the resulting menu. Next, uncheck the "Read Only" checkbox on the lower part of the Properties screen. Hit OK and you're all set.

also make your your drive is a re-writable drive, you have the right software to burn programs/documents.

 

Assuming that D: is a CD Burber.

The process is to download to C:\, and then use a Burning software to burn the files to a blank CD.

Here is a nice free CD Burner program, http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=5319

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