One free CD burner that works well for me is called Deepburner.  It is a self-contained 
program, just unzip and run, no installation required.  I am running it under XP, 
but it claims to work on 98(original) and higher:

http://www.deepburner.com/?r=download

Note:  They offer both a free version and a shareware version, which does more for 
a price.  For simply burning data file to a CD-R (write once media), the free version 
is OK. 

Comment:  The suggestions to use email or a pen-drive are both good ideas, in principle. 
 email is limited in the size of attachments, but mutiple emails can be sent.  See 
further down for thoughts on pen-drives.

For "zipping", try the free program called 7-zip.

http://www.7-zip.org/

Note that picture files (i.e., JPGs) do not compress much.  However, zipping can 
also be used to make collections to reduce the number of total files.

As for pen drives, many only support XP and above.  Some offer drivers for 98SE, 
but not 98.  Few support plain 98.

But, a simple way around the limitations of 98 is to to download a free "live" LINUX 
image and burn it to a CD on any computer.  "live" means that the PC boots from the 
CD, and nothing is installed on your hard drive.  This requires a PC that can boot 
from CD, but most win98 vintage PC can do that.  However, you might need to change 
the boot order in the BIOS to CD before hard drive.  LINUX will then have native 
support for USB devices, like pen drives.  Just be sure to plug in the pen drive 
before booting from the CD.

Finally, bear in mind that a USB, self-powered floppy can be added to any modern 
PC for occassional use, then unplugged when not in use.  These are very cheap.  Do 
a search on "USB floppy".






On Monday, April 14, 2008 at 4:39 am, Marina wrote:

>I want to transfer the data of a floppy to a cd.

>I am about to buy a newer computer that does not have the slot for floppy. 

>I know that I need the software CD writer for that procedure. There is on the web 

>to download for free. How safe is that free download?

>Thanks for any response. 

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