You have to copy the CD to your HDD, remove the Read Only attribute and then
import them into OE in order to read them.

Reference - Backup & Resto
http://www.insideoe.com/backup/

For the futu

Create a folder on your Desktop, then in Outlook Express open the folder
with the messages you want to save. Highlight one message, then Ctrl+A will
highlight them all, (or hold the Ctrl button down while you select only the
messages you want), Now, drag and drop them to the folder on your Desktop.
(Easiest if the folder shortcut is on the Taskbar).

Now you can copy that folder to a CD and you will be able to read the
messages on the CD by double-clicking on them.

The downside of this is that messages that have the same subject will be
overwritten. To avoid this, purchase:

DBXtract:
http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"choppbobby" wrote in message
...
I burned some OE e-mail files to a CD. As you probably know (as i found
out)
they are DBX files. (What ever that is).
Now I have these OE files on a CD with no way to open them.
Is there a way to open these files? Or is there a way to put the OE files
on a CD in a form other than DBX?
I have Win XP Home, and IE 6, and OE 6.
Thanks,
Bob