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Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
1. LOL ...
Tue Mar 16, 2021, 02:21 AM
Mar 2021

I gotcha.

You probably actually have a DVD- rom drive, computers haven't had a straight CD-Rom drive in them for a LONG time. It's fine a DVD burner will also burn CD's.

I'm assuming you have a reasonably new Windows version, yeah?

1) Pop a totally blank disc into your drive and close the door
2) You'll get a window pop up asking what you want to do with discs, choose the 'Add Files' option.
3) You should get a window asking how you want to use the disc, like a USB drive or with a cd/dvd player. For this experiment, choose the 'with a cd/dvd player'. this finalizes the disc after you write to it and maximizes the number of other devices that can read from the disc. Then click 'Next'.
4) You'll then get a window saying 'drag and drop files to this folder'. Hopefully you know how to get to this cloud storage spot within the windows file environment. If you DON'T, then go into Acrobat and save that file LOCALLY, like on your desktop.
5) Drag and drop your file into the appropriate area for the burning mechanism. If you lose that window, you should be able to get back to it by selecting the DVD drive (probably D: ) in the windows file menu.
6) Once it's in that list (ignore the popup if you get one after dragging in the file) you can right-click in that window and choose 'Burn To Disc'.
7) The windows burning software will take you thru some stuff, just use default values.





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