Burn a CD or DVD
To burn a cd or dvd is a simple process. You'll want to burn backups of your important work. Be sure to also burn backups of any applications or fonts or other files that you download straight from the Internet.
The steps below describe how to burn data files (as opposed to music or movies) onto a disc. A cd holds about 650 megabytes; a dvd holds about 4.3 gigabytes, even though the package might tell you it holds 4.7. (To burn a music cd from iTunes, please see page 108.)
To burn a disc, of course, you must have a computer with a built-in drive that is capable of doing this! You can buy an external cd or dvd burner, but you won't be able to use the process below to burn the discs; you'll need other software, such as Roxio Toast. ...
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