How to copy a CD to desktop

Insert CD into CD bay and go to My Computer to see the contents of the CD that you just put into the CD Drive.
Go My Computer by using Start/My Computer …you will see various drives listed as shown below:

Notice the red arrow above

To open the CD drive double click drive…you should be a list of the contents of the drive as Below:

Use Edit/Select All/ Copy to put these contents on the desktop ( you need to make a new folder on the desktop name it)

Open the new folder on the desktop and do a copy/ paste of the contents of the folder that you copied. As below

Now you are interested in putting this folder and contents into a CD.

Take the copied CD from the CD bay. You are done with it. And replace it with a blank CD.
Go to My computer to see the new CD that you have put into the CD. It should be blank.

• If you have a media editor such as Roxio then you may need to use that software to burn a CD.
• If you do not have a media editor do this:

Right click on the folder and choose SEND TO CD
At this time the files should begin copying to the blank CD that you have in the CD Bay.

After you SEND TO CD, you may have a balloon show on the system tray at the bottom right of the taskbar saying that you have files waiting to be written to CD. Click on the balloon and a window will appear offering to write files to the CD. Click the text saying “write files to CD” Be sure to give the computer time to recognize the blank CD in the bay. Follow the wizard instructions to make your new CD

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