This post shows students and new users the steps to burn a CD or DVD in Windows 11. Although burning content to a CD or DVD is no longer popular, it is still possible to do so in Windows 11.
Assuming your Windows device has an optical media drive capable of writing content to a CD or DVD, Windows 11 makes it easy to write «burn down”A CD-R or DVD-R disc. Burning or writing content to a CD / DVD disc is like backing up the original content to your computer.
Content written to a disc can then be transferred to another device or stored in a safe place for safekeeping. A CD / DVD disc can also be used to perform a full backup of the Windows image. With the advent of bigger and cheaper thumb drives, CDs / DVDs are not as popular for writing or backing up content.
To burn content to a CD / DVD, you will also need some blank CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, or DVD-RW discs that will work with your drive.
Below are the details of the CD / DVD disc that can be used to write content.
- CD-R, DVD-R: These disk types only allow data to be written to the disk. They cannot be physically erased.
- CD-RW, DVD-RW: These types of discs allow you to write and erase data on the disc.
Most devices will come with a CD-R / DVD-R that allows content to be written to CD or DVD discs.
How to Burn Content to CDs or DVDs in Windows 11
Now that you know a thing or two about burning content to an optical disc, let’s continue below to see how it’s done.
By default, Windows will automatically recognize you when you insert a blank writable CD or DVD into your optical drive. When you do that, a window with the title «Record a Disc»Will appear.
These are the options that are offered to you to write content to a disc:
- Like a usb stick: This allows you to save, edit, and delete files from the disk at any time.
- With a CD / DVD player: This is a more traditional method of “mastering” discs. When you copy files to the drive, they are first temporarily copied to a staging area on your hard drive, then when you’re ready, just select Burn down in File Explorer.
Click next continue.
The disc should then open in File Explorer, where you can drag and drop content or copy and paste content. After copying the content to disc, click the Burn command in File Explorer to start burning the content.
After a short moment, when the disc has been successfully burned, click the Finish button to complete the process.
You should do that!
conclusion:
In this tutorial we have seen how to burn a disc in Windows 11. If you find any errors above or have something to add, use the comment form below.
