Hello and welcome to The Computer Lab vids YouTube channel. In this video I'm
going to show you how to burn a CD or a DVD in Windows 10 the way I'm going to
show you is purely for burning data or photographs document stuff like that it
is not for creating a movie if you want to watch one on how to create a movie so
you can play it on the TV please do watch one of my videos which have done a
full tutorial on how to create a movie DVD for playing underneath your TV etc
no but this one is purely for data okay so the first thing we need to do is open
file explorer so go down to the icon at the bottom open up file explorer and
this will present obviously all your files that are on your computer your
Windows 10 machine at this point. The thing that's happened to quite all
the machines that I've had a look at is that the CD drive or the DVD drive that is
normally listed on the left hand side under what used to be called my PC which
is now called This PC is now gone it's not there and you can't see it until you
actually click on This PC icon then obviously you can see the DVD which we
need to send our files to. So I like to I'm going to show you three different
ways how to burn the documents of files across so if you don't used to
Windows 10 grab across on the top toolbar drag to
the right hand side and this will bring up a put it as half screen size the things on
the left we don't see them so don't click on them back down to file explorer
on the bottom right click and then left click on file explorer this will open
another window again if you're not used to windows 10 grab hold of the top
toolbar as you see where my mouse is left click and then drag all the way to
the left hand side and this will create a half size window so now we have two
windows side by side, the reason why I like to do this is because I like to
send my documents from my left to right you can do whichever way you want it's
not really anything fixed obviously this is the nice way of doing it so you can
see what files you are sending across to your CD player
or DVD burner CD burner sorry so I was going to pick some pictures that I've
got in my pictures folder and I want to drag them into my CD drive which is on
the right hand side here so obviously I've got my pictures on the left but I
can't see my CD drive on the right. All I can see is all the different drives
at my computer thinks it can see, a couple of shared network drives my C Drive all in
Windows 10 there and like I said before in Microsoft in the wisdom they've got
rid of my PC they've now called it this PC so anyway what we need to do if we
click on where it says this PC where you can see my mouse hovering now you click
on this PC will bring up a separate box while the items listed should be there
is your CD or DVD Drive which you can see my burning drive there for doing CDs
and DVDs double click on there us there's no disc in there at the moment
so I double clicked and I said ok please insert a disc so I can't open another
window up at this stage or I can but I'm not going to show you how to that but I'm
going to show you basically a quick way of sending them files on the left hand
that window across to the right hand side so select the files that you want
and I'm going to select these 8 photographs obviously I'm going to send
these to a CD for this tutorial you have using a DVD which can hold more data but
make sure they can fit onto the drive is what I'm getting out if you've got too
many pictures it will basically say can't fit onto the CD or DVD drive. So
left click and hold the left click on your mouse button you can see that it
said okay we've got 8 items selected and then drag across to the right window and
then hover over the your DVD Drive and once you're in that section is saying ok
now you're gonna put these files into this CD Drive but I've got a disc in
there so please insert a disc so at this point I will insert a CD into my drive
yours might take a while I might be instantaneous but give it a second to
read the drive you can see a little icon flashed up there just to show that I
have inserted a disc it does take windows just a second just to access the
CD drive and just understand what it is you just put in. So now
got an option here we can format like a USB flash drive and the description is
self-explanatory on there so we can save edit delete files in the disc at any
time this disc will work on computers running Windows XP or later called a
live filesystem and the one underneath is where it's viewable on so your CD or DVD
drive on your telly obviously be using an Xbox or something like that it should
read this anyway but the safe bet if you giving it to your mum dad or family or
whatever it be and they've got a separate DVD player you want to do on
the second one so I'm going to do mine just it's got a computer chance for the
data from computer to computer I'm gonna give it a name a disc titled CD with
pictures and once you've named it make sure you have selected your option that
you want and then go down to the next button at the bottom there just click
Next and now Windows 10 obviously brings up the formatting box you can see there
there's a CD 702 megabytes for the size of the disc if you've got a DVD in
there it will show it larger and then it's just going to copy these eight
photographs across from my pictures folder onto the CD so you can see there
that the eight pictures are now transferred onto my CD in my DVD / CD
Drive in Windows 10 and that's it that's one of the ways to do the burning onto a
CD drive. So I'm just gonna drag this across to the right-hand side here so
you can again just see that the pictures I've sent across are correct so
there's the a images on the left that was in my pictures folder and they've
gone across into right onto my CD drive so when I eject the disk and put it back in
it'll just open up the same photographs and if you have done photographs or
data then obviously it will just show up like I've just indicated there when you
click on them. So that is my preferred method on burning a CD a DVD in Windows
10 but I'll just quickly show you the a couple of ways to do this so on the left
hand side we've got the file explorer open if you right click once you've got
a disc in there and you can pin to start so you notice it's
not in my Start menu at the moment but again make sure the disk is in so you
can see the cd/dvd right-click and then pin to start and then when you go back
into the Start menu you'll notice bottom right-hand corner there we now have our
DVD drive so when we have the disc out we can access the CD or DVD drive within
Windows 10 anytime we want. OK so the other way to do is also you can pin to
your quick access which again brings it up into the top left hand side making
sure you still get the CD and at this point it doesn't matter once we've done
it we've pinned the actual drive so as soon as we do that we know that we're
good at the Start menu and we're also going to in our quick access menu for
later so we'll go back into I'll just close that down and just open a fresh
window again eject the disk so now you know the disk is out and I cannot see on
the left hand side the drive but I still have access to it in my quick access the
double-click on it is saying insert a disk and I'll still got access to it and
when I click on this PC which used to be my PC and obviously we go into the Start
menu double click it gives you exactly the same prompt to insert a disk so this
is the other way you can do to burn a disc just find the file you want right
click go down to send to and then send it to DVD or CD Drive depending on what
yours is called so that's another way of burning discs so just to show you again
obviously find the pictures that you want or files or documents I select the
same 8 ones so about 8 photographs selected right clicked on the
photographs then they go send to and click on the drive that you're sending
to obviously I have no disk in my drive at the moment
but if you have a disc in or you insert the disc at this point it will then ask
you to format it the other option is you can drag across
into the quick access menu just created it so again highlight the files that you
want drag them across onto there make sure you dragging them onto the area you
want and then just drop them into the folder. OK so that's it that's the full
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