Didn't mean to be confusing.
I didn't necessarily configure 2 com ports. I have Putty installed from another project having nothing to do with this Arduino project and I just noticed it was on com 1. com 5 is the port that the PC set the Arduino to, nothing I did. I don't know how to direct the serial.write to com1. The com 5 I am refering to is the com port the Arduino is connected to and as such, the Arduino serial monitor.
As for Putty running forever that is not a problem since it's a dedictaed PC just for this project and as long as I need to collect the data.
Right now I'm only using some test code to get this thing working. When I write to the SD card I also wrote to the Arduino serial monitor to verify the data that's passing through. How do you modify the code to write to Putty through com1 rather than the Arduino serial monitor through com 5?
I hope that clarifies things.
I really appreciate the help.
Tom