The built-in CD burning capability is actually easy to use if you forget about the 
previous tools and utilities that have come before.  Assuming everything is installed 
correctly and operational, the basics are as follows:

Data CD

1. Insert the new media into the CD-RW drive.
2. A dialog box will pop up giving several options. Select "Open writable CD folder 
using Windows Explorer" and select the OK option.
3. Drag and drop any folders and files as needed to this window. (Windows is making 
a copy of the data at this time)
4. To write to the CD, select the "Write These files to CD" option in the upper left 
hand options area of Windows Explorer.
5. Wait for the write to complete and chek your work.

Music CD (Disk Copy - kinda)

1. Insert the new media into the CD-RW drive.
2. A dialog box will pop up giving several options. Select "Select media to copy 
to CD using Windows Media Player" and select the OK option.
3. Using the Media Player, select a stored "playlist" to copy to the CD by selecting 
the "Copy to CD or Device" button. (If all you want to fo is copy and existing CD, 
unfortunately, you have to copy[rip] the source music onto disk using the "Copy from 
CD" button first.
4. Once you have selected all the playlists to be copy, press the "Record to CD" 
button in the upper right corner of the Media Player. (The selected tracks will be 
re-convirted to a CD recognizible format and then burned to the CD.)

Note: If making [archive] copies are all you want to do, my mught be better off purchasing 
an XP tested CD utility software program.  

Good burning to you!

-Michael





On Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 6:01 pm, m jackson wrote:
>I have a question about How 
>do I use the built-in CD burning in Windows XP?:

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