Loading pictures from old diskettes to CD/DVD?

Okay, I have hundreds of diskettes with pictures on them, back from my old Sony Mavica digital camera. I want to toss the diskettes, and finally learn to put them all out on DVD's, (I presume, please inform me if should be done differently), so that I can categorize them, and sort for photo album creation. I'm using Corel Photo Album as the software, but I've accidently purchased Music song CD's and haven't a clue what CD's or DVD's what you call them to use. Please help. I can't exchange the CD's, so I'm stuck with the incorrect ones that I bought, they don't work for pictures. This is a DIY project which will take me quite a few weekends, and I'm honestly clueless how to get it all together. Thanks!

thanks thus far, I have 10 disks, (packaged) Memorex DVD+R, 8X4.7 GB, 120 video... when I tried to load pictures on it, would load... . Just more details for you!

Hi there,

First of all, as you already noticed, those music CD would not fit for what you need. But if you don't mind to spare one, you can try it as well.
You need blank Data CDs or DVDs. You might need just a CD instead of DVD, depends on the size and numbers of your pictures. these days, blank cds are pretty cheap, try to buy some brand names, doesn't matter much, but usually better then no names.
For software it's up to you. There are a lot of options for processing pictures, so, what you have I think is more than enough. Just play around, read the documentation for what you need.
Hope it is clearer now. Good luck and have fun :)

all you need is a cd (r) or cd(rw) disc for this what you do is put in ur diskettes with pictures on in the drive then right hit on the drive hit in explorer. then creat a new folder on desktop right hit on desktop hit on new in the muenu that pop up hit on new folder . then right hit on the new folder hit on explorer then go back to the open . diskette window at the top hit on edit - select all then at the top again hit on edit - copy . then go to the new open folder window right hit in side it hit on paste then the pictures will copy from the diskette to the new folder do that with all your diskettes frist when you have . all them doen what you do then is place a cd(r) or cd(rw ) in the cd/dvd/rw drive when the cd is ready and the light on the drive has stop flashing. right hit on the drive with the cd(r) or cd(rw) disc in. and hit on explorer
the cd window will open now go back to ur open folder with your pictures hit in view / list at the top then hit on .edit / copy then go to the cd window right hit in side there and hit on paste . then when you see all the . pictures copy over to the cd they will have a + on them thats ok just at the top of the open cd . window hit on file- write - these files to cd . then hit a box will pop up name the cd my pictures . then hit on ok then they will be buen on to cd i dont mean on fire they will go on to the cd wait for it to be done when its done the cd door will open and a box will pop up asking if you want to say a log file say no to save then all your pictures are on cd then close the cd door with the pictures .cd in the right hit on it hit on explorer .and you will see all your pictures. if you cant fit all of them on cd in 1 go put so many on cd at a time use a cd (rw) disk for this

The CD's you have are probably O.K. for storing data. There is no difference in CD's made for songs or data. The package should read CD-R or CD-RW. The RW suffix means you can delete files and add more. With a CD-R you just write one time. A DVD disc will hold 4.7 Gbytes of data, but you need a different drive to "burn" a DVD. The drives which came with your computer will "burn"CD's. Your pictures should be saved on the CD as .jpg files for general use.