I burned them by topics on cd's, if you pc doesnt have a cd burner, go to an internet cafe with you usb stick.

you can get either an external cd/dvd burner or harddrive pretty reasonably these days. they both work easily and can be disconnected when you dont need them, I bought a 500 GB external harddrive for around 130.00, just for music and pix. It will take a long time to fill that up, then I just disconnect it so it cant be zapped or infected when I am not using it. A burner would be good too, you can fit a lot of photos on a disc. Of course the memory sticks are getting bigger all the time, too, A 2 GB stick would hold a lot too, and they are as simple to use as anything.

you're dealing with MASSIVE sized photos, 7.2 MP is quite a tall order.

you say your computer lacks a CD burner, the first thing i do is say "buy a new computer". I haven't seen a computer in the last 3 years that didn't come with some kind of optical backup solution (either CD burner or DVD Burner), and quite honestly, the price of these things have dropped to the point you'd be silly to not have one. If your computer is old enough it didn't get one, you might not want to be using it to organize your photos anyway.

there are some other options, such as an external hard drive that plugs into USB. You get the advantage of having your photos stored elsewhere, but hard drives are unreliable and are prone to failure (my external photo backup died).

my suggestion to you is get a DVD burner, it is the absolute cheapest and most reliable form of backup you can get. the just burn your photos onto the DVD. blank DVD's are cheap..and an external unit (if you're unwilling to install an internal) will hands down give you the best backup.

Hiya,

I think you will at least need to get an external CD-RW drive* or get an external hard drive for your pictures.

As a former professional photographer, I take my digital image files seriously.

I back up my iPhoto library onto an external hard drive.
Before wiping my CF/SD memory card, I make two archival CD-R copies and one DVD-R copy and store them in separate places.

Good quality CD-R's (Taiyo-Yuden and "gold" media) may last 70-300 years in storage. The best DVD-R's won't last more than a century and they are more susceptible to damage.

* You could also transfer files to a CD with a friend's computer.

Hope this info is helpful to you.

Your current method of storing images isn't really practical, because you will run out of storage space in no time.

The easiest and cheapest way to back up, is to go out and buy a DVD burner. It will also allow you to burn to CD, but provides the better option of burning to DVD (which has much more capacity).
You could also buy an external HDD, which is more costly, though.

I always burn all files to CD/DVD, as well as back them up to the external drive.