How To Burn a CD or DVD on Windows PC - 2021 Edition

have you forgotten how to burn a cd or dvd on your windows pc well in this video i'm going to show you how you can burn a cd or dvd without downloading any new software [Music] hey everybody welcome to another episode of tech that doesn't bite earning a cd or a dvd is something that we are starting to forget especially in the year 2021 so let's get started with the tutorial but before we start the tutorial i just want to give a little disclaimer please use this method for your own personal files and not burn any copyrighted music or videos so let's get right into it so here i am using windows 10 and i just have windows explorer open and you can see there is a dvd drive on the computer that i am testing this out with so you can use a cdr a cdrw dvd-r or dvd-rw any of those blank media will work with this method in my case i'm using a dvd-rw and i do remember that this dvd-rw has files in them so i'm just going to erase this disk so i'm going to right-click and click on erase this disk i'm gonna let it erase all the files from this disk and once all the files has been erased from your disk you just click on finish so now i have a completely empty disk so let's double click on it because we're going to get this window right here it's asking us how we want to use this this how we do how are we going to burn this and the first thing we're going to do is we can title this disk something a little bit different i'm just going to name this as test and there's two methods what you can use this disk as a usb flash drive so think of it like a usb flash drive where you can put as many files as you like as long as you have enough space so you can make this cd or dvd into a usb flash drive like medium if that's what you would like and we're going to talk about that a little bit later but for for now i want to know burn this disc you know with a cd slash dvd player so that basically means that i can burn files or folders and basically just burn it once you know master it as a one-time kind of burn disk and then i could put this dvd into you know another computer and then just access those files i won't be able to put any more files in it i don't want to use it as a usb flash drive so this is pretty standard for a lot of you know dvd burning and that's what i want so i'm gonna click on next and now it's time for me to start dragging files or folders to this disk that's ready to burn so i'm just going to drag some files on my desktop i'm just going to have some of these files here and if you don't see them right there just make sure you click on your drive and there it is so there are three files that are ready to be burned so all i do is i just click on drive tools click on finish burning and it's asking me to prepare this disk and again i could rename the title anything i like you know recording speed depending on the medium you're using in your drive your recording speed will be a little bit different so i'm just gonna leave it the way right there now if you have choices you know you could either pick the max speed or you could pick somewhere in the middle and i'm just going to click on next now you might see this window up here if it's asking if it sees some mp3 files so it's asking me if i want to burn audio cd so there are two options you can burn audio cd this is where you can make this like an actual cd audio cd that you could play in your your car stereo or any other stereo that that you might have or you could just make it as a a data cd or slash dvd so i'm gonna do that and i'm gonna click next so now you have successfully burned your files to this disk and we're going to double check to make sure it's actually there and we can actually access it so i'm going to click finish and let's browse to the dvd yep and there it is here are the three files that are currently on the disk itself so again now i can remove this disk from my current computer you know use it on another computer view the files as i like so let's say you want to make your cd or dv like a usb flash drive so let's give that a shot all i do is i'm going to input my blank media first and with this option you can actually use a cdr again a crw dvdr or dvdrw so in my case i'm using a dvrw and again i am going to double click on this and this time i'm going to pick like a usb flash drive and i'm going to call this just test and click on next and now it's going to start formatting that dvd and make it like a usb flash drive once it finishes formatting we can start adding files folders and i'm gonna do this i'm gonna do it actually like kind of like one by one to show you that it's acting like a usb flash drive so i'm just gonna add this file first and it's gonna give you that little transfer window transfer activity window now obviously my files are a little bit smaller but i just added one file here and i'm just gonna throw another file as you can see it's acting like a usb flash drive i'm gonna throw another file here and you can continue using this like a usb flash drive as long as you have enough space so let's try deleting a file without having to erase the entire disk and let's try that right now so let's say i want to get rid of this file right here and i'm going to click on delete and let's see will it currently delete this file from this disk just this file and it works so i can even just delete a single file from the disk and if i want to add it back i can just do that easily now i also tested this on a just regular length cdr not a not a rewritable disc just a cdr and also works as well so you can actually delete individual files from a cdr as well so definitely consider the like a usb flash drive option if you want to use a cd r or a dvd-r as a flash storage questions of the days are what other methods do you use to burn a cd or dvd on your windows pc do you use a different software also when was the last time you burned a cd or dvd let us know in the comments below thank you for watching if you like this video make sure to hit that thumbs up button and the subscribe button and don't forget to hit that bell notification so you get notified of new videos stay tuned for part two where i show you how to make your own dvd movies using a different software on a windows pc in the meantime if you're a mac user you want to know how to make your own dvd movies check out this tutorial with dvd styler see you next time

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Length: 8min 0sec (480 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 19 2021