Technical information
Chapter 3: Storage: Internal, External, and in the Sky
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If you just want to copy files to a CD or DVD, perhaps
to save as a backup or to give to a friend, stick around.
Follow these steps to write files to a new, blank CD or
DVD. (If you’re writing files to a CD or DVD that
you’ve written to before, jump ahead to Step 4.)
1. Insert the blank disc into your disc burner.
Then click or tap the Notification box that
appears in the screen’s upper-right corner.
2. When the Notification box asks how you’d like to
proceed, click the box’s Burn Files to Disc option.
3. In the resulting Burn a Disc dialog box, type a
name for the disc, describe how you want to use
the disc, and click Next.
Windows can burn the files to the disc two differ-
ent ways:
•LikeaUSBflashdrive: This method lets you
read and write files to the disc many times, a
handy way to use discs as portable file carriers.
•WithaCD/DVDplayer: If you plan to play your
disc on a fairly new home stereo disc player
that’s smart enough to read files stored in sev-
eral different formats, select this method.
Armed with the disc’s name, Windows 8 prepares
the disc for incoming files.
4. Tell Windows 8 which files to write to disc.
Now that your disc is ready to accept the files,
tell Windows 8 what information to send its way.
You can do this in any of several ways:
•Right-clicktheitemyouwanttocopy,beita
single file, folder, or selected files and folders.
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