I have a Hewlett Packard Pavilion Millenium edition personal computer.
I would like to know if I can burn data onto a blank disc with it. I
want to include on the disc a search engine so that I can retrieve
data by putting the disc in my computer and entering a word or a phrase
in the search engine. If this is possible please send me a detailed
explanation of the process for doing it. In setting forth the process
please remember that I am not computer literate and know only a few of
the technical terms. For instance below I am entering in the question
category section the word "software" although I am not sure of the
difference between software and hardware.
    If it is not possible to burn a cd on my computer please tell me
where I can have a data cd made with a searc engine that I can enter
into my computer and retrieve the information.

didom-ga:

The researchers (I am not an official one) will need some additional
information to answer your question.

1. Does your PC have a CD Writer (or burner) or just a CD Reader?  If
you don't know, can you provide the exact model number of your HP PC
(it should be on a the logo in front of the PC, or on a label on the
back of the PC that says "model number" or something similar).

2. If you have a CD Writer, what software is installed on your PC to
write the CD (Roxio, Nero, NTI, ... with version number, if any).

3. What type of files will you be putting on the CD (Word, PowerPoint,
any other type of data)?

my grandma had the same computer as you but as athena said you need to
supply more info

as for searching on a CD after it is created all you have to do is
open the CD by double clicking and then pres ctrl+F this will open a
search window

re:burn data cd's on personal computers.  
     In answer to your question: I doubt if my computer has a burner
or writer I don"t know. It is a Hewlett Packed Pavilion Millenium
Edition Model C 6745 C
                                                    Fred

I forgot to add in my comment to you question that I will be entering
word files on the cd's

You might be able to determine if you have a burner if you look on the
burner itself.  On the front of most burners, it will say Rewrite or
Rewriteable Disc in tiny letters.

Also, talljew's comment about doing a Control + F (or right click the
drive/folder, and select "search" or "find") is an easy way to have
your "search engine."  The older Windows Operativng Systems allow you
to search only the filename.  In Windows 2000 and XP (not sure about
Windows ME [Millenim Edition]), you can even search the contents of
the files depending on the file formats.  I would imagine that they
would be able to search inside the MS Word documents.  As a test, you
can do this search on your C: drive (or any folder or subfolder) and
see if you like the results of this "search engine."

One final thing you'll need are blank CDs.  :)

Alternatively, you could send all the files to a friend who does have
a burner and have him/her burn them onto a CD.  If you have files that
take up a large amount of space (5+ megs), it could take a very long
time over a dial up connection.  For 5 megs, it would probably take an
hour on dial up.

Yet another solution would be to have a friend with a laptop with a
burner come over to your place to burn the files.  You would have to
find a way to transfer the files to the laptop though (usb, ethernet,
serial connection, token ring...).

didom-ga:

Hewlett Packed Pavilion Model 6745C is good information to answer this question.

According to
 http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&lang=en&cc=us&product=58147&dlc=en&docname=bph05963#N1078C

it comes with a CD writer (CD-RW drive) and  Easy CD Creator by
Adaptec to write CDs.

I'd recommend using a blank CD-R disk to do the writing (CD-RW disks
should also work, but some older computer had problems reading CD-RW
disks written by other computers).

To write data files into the CD, see
http://support.gateway.com/support/faq/c-drives/adaptec/CDCreator5/data_cd.htm
or
http://www.lecom.edu/staff/cd.htm
(or search on google for "using easy CD creator" without quotes).  You
can select your MS-Word files and record them to the CD this way.

For searching, you can use the WindowsME search feature
(Start-Search), or even better, get the Google Desktop (read details
at http://desktop.google.com/about.html and download from
http://desktop.google.com/ and install it on your PC if you think it
suits your needs).  Good luck.

--
I am not an official GA researcher.

After posting the comment, I discovered from
http://desktop.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=12320&query=CD+drive&topic=0&type=f
that google desktop curently does not search CDs or external drives. 
So if WindowsME search is not sufficient, you can get tools with
additional features by searching (!) google for "searching file on a
CD" (or similar phrase, no quotes).