If you are running Windows XP you can right click on the file and choose "send to" and then choose "CDRW Drive" if you are running and older version of Windows you will need CD Burning software such as Roxio Easy CD Creator to name just one.
The best way would probably be to get a hardware specialist to download the photos of the main drive of your iMac.
If you plug your camera into the USB, it will show up as just another drive. Simply select your photos in the camera, then copy them to wherever in your hard drive you normally store photos.
After taking photos there's different ways to keep it. You can just leave it on the memory card or you can copy it onto your hard drive. Photo hard drive backup is commonly used by copying all the photos into a portable hard drive. That way if your computers HD or your memory stick got broken you have backup in your portable device.
You could burn the photos to a disc, or copy them to an external drive such as a USB drive or an external hard drive, and then delete the photos from your computer. And if your computer is still slow, you can use a tool like CCleaner to help clean up your computer and make it faster. It seems unlikely that too many photos would slow down your computer unless they took up all the hard drive space, check for malware/viruses.
Yes. You will need an external drive case for this. Basically its a small metal box (but make sure to get a 5.25" version for your drive) with an IDE interface for the drive and a USB interface for your laptop. Thereby converting your internal IDE CDRW into an external USB CDRW. They can also be used for hard disks.
With a scanner
If your Mac has crashed and you have lost all data then unless you made a backup of all the photos they cannot be replaced. If you used Time Machine and your iMac was connected to an external hard drive then all your photos are on that external hard drive. Simply open Time Machine and restore all the photos to iPhoto.
Imaging a hard drive is making an exact copy of your hard drive and either saving that copy onto another hard drive or into a folder. The software packages available can be free or paid for.
as long as theres enough room on the smaller hard drive...then yes..
Yes You Can But does your CD drive copy CD's if it does than yes if no then no.
This is usually a folder view option.
Just drag the movie to the hard drive icon and it will copy it.