This feature is not as flexible as other disk burning software like Nero or Roxio (even though it is built on Roxio Code) but it is still useful when you don’t have external burning software.
First, make sure the burning feature is enabled.
- Open “My Computer” and right click the icon for your burner. (eg D: ) and click “Properties”.
- In the “Properties” window, choose the “Recording” tab.
- Mark the square which says “Enable CD Recording On This Drive” and click the “OK” button.
Now let’s burn some files to a CD.
If you want to burn files like word documents, pictures, software etc, this is called a DATA CD.
Do as follows:
- In “My Computer” double click on the CD Burner drive.
- Drag and drop the files you want to burn into this folder. (Just like moving files from one folder to another). If you like, you can create new folders and organize your files in different folders by dragging and dropping them.
- Now click on “File” --> “Write these files to CD ”
- Now follow the steps in the wizard which opened up. You can give the disk a name in the “CD NAME” box.
- It will let you know when it is done burning the files.
If you want to burn a music CD (known as Audio CD), you can do the same as above or you can use Windows Media Player to burn them as an Audio CD.
- I am assuming you have Windows Media Player 11. If not, then upgrade to it by the following link. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/AllDownloads.aspx?displang=en&qstechnology=
- Open the Windows Media Player (Start -->Run --> wmplayer).
- Select the “BURN” button. You will see the “Burn List” on the right.
- Drag and drop any MP3 or WAV files into this window in the desired order. You can rearrange the order by dragging the music files up and down in the “Burn List”.
- When you're done, click the “Start Burn” button on the bottom right.
- It will let you know when it is done burning them.
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