[vip_students] Burning CD's from windows XP
- From: "NCBI Technical Support" <paul.traynor@xxxxxxx>
- To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 13:23:31 +0100
Hi Paul and all the group,
You are very observant Paul, thanks for that. I forgot to copy over the
details from the other email I wrote them in first.,*blush*,smiles.
Now on with the real business at hand.
Introduction:
Today I was asked to outline how you can burn files to a blank CD using the
windows XP built in CD burning feature. This could be a situation you are in
at some point when you find that you have to backup your important documents
from the "My documents" folder on your computer. Of course we all know that
backing up is something we should do from time to time. I always suggest to
people that they get for themselves a small external USB hard drive, this
is a device that plugs into one of the little USB ports in the back, front
or side of your PC just like the printer is plugged in and makes a wonderful
storage device. You can also make it a point to make backups of their files
onto a CD for safe keeping. Now that we have that out of the way, let's
begin our tutorial.
[Preparing the process]
1. We will need a blank CD. There are two types of CD's you can get;
*. CDRW, "this is a type of blank CD you can use over and over".
*. CDR's, " you can only use this type of CD once, you can keeping adding
files to it till its full but once it is full it can no longer be used for
anything except viewing the files contained on it".
The brand of CD's I prefer are "TDK". You can purchase blank CD's from a lot
of the big stores such as Lidl and Aldi as well as Texaco but it is my
opinion that unless they are good quality ones such as I have suggested
above then they aren't always very reliable.
[Copying the files to be burned]
Because we are essentially making a backup of all our files, this tutorial
suggests that we copy all our files from within the "My Documents folder".
Step 1. Go to the desktop and then press the letter "M" till you come to "my
documents".
Step 2. Press the enter key or mouse users, double click.
Step 3. Screen reader users, use keys "control + letter A" to select all
files and sub folders contained in My Documents".
Mouse users, go into the "edit menu" at the top of the window and choose
"select all".
Step 4. Screen reader users, use keys "control + letter C" to copy the files
to the windows clipboard.
Mouse users, go to "edit menu again" and choose "copy".
Step 5. Close the "my documents folder" using keys "Alt + F4" or mouse
users, click on the "X" on the top right of the window.
Step 6. Now we are ready to insert our blank CD into the CDRW drive.
[Burning the files]
Step 1. Insert the blank CDR/RW into the drive.
Step 2. Wait a few moments and what should happen is that a list of choices
should pop up on your screen. Jaws, window eyes or your screen magnification
software will work with this screen well.
Step 3. Usually what I do is I just arrow down the list and choose from it
the option, "Open writable CD folder" by pressing the enter key.
Step 4. A blank screen which is really the window of the blank CD you have
inserted earlier appears on the monitor.
Step 5. Now just use the keys, "control + letter V" to paste the entire
contents of your windows clipboard into this empty screen. The contents as
we know being your precious files and folders.
Note: This might take a little time depending on how much stuff you have to
copy. Also please note that if you have large files such as music files and
so on, you should try and separate such materials and place them onto a
different CD from your normal text documents. This one of the reasons I
always tend to recommend an external USB hard drive as it can hold more
files of a larger proportion than a CD. Also with the external USB device
you can even set up a backup plan and have the computer automatically make
the backup operation work automatically.
Step 6. Next we are now ready to begin the burning process by going to the
"file menu, alt + f" and choosing "burn my files".
Step 7. If you tab along you will be prompted for a label for your CD, this
is usually already filled in with the date of when you have done the burn
but you can type something more meaningful in here if you like. Next you
will be asked to check a box which indicates that the burn window will
close when the process has completed, I usually check this myself, you don't
have to repeat it in the future. Then finally you click on the next or burn
button to begin the burning process.
Note: Depending on the amount of files being copied to CD it make take quite
some time to complete but don't worry because when it has completed the CD
door will pop open and your CD will be there sitting on the tray for you to
take and store away somewhere.
I hope you found this tutorial useful.
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