How to Format a CD for Pictures

Insert the CD into your CD-ROM drive., Open up Windows Explorer and select the folder that is the CD. , If there is any data on the disc, you can simply delete the data by right-clicking on the file(s) you want to delete, then click delete., Find...

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Step-by-Step Guide

  1. Step 1: Insert the CD into your CD-ROM drive.

    If there is no CD-ROM drive on your computer, you have to buy an external one and install the driver to the computer.
  2. Step 2: Open up Windows Explorer and select the folder that is the CD.

    , If the file(s) is/are "read-only"

    when you put the pictures on, the old file(s) will be deleted. ,, If it does not exactly say those words, look for something similar to that. , The pictures can be opened on any kind of computer OS. ,
  3. Step 3: If there is any data on the disc

  4. Step 4: you can simply delete the data by right-clicking on the file(s) you want to delete

  5. Step 5: then click delete.

  6. Step 6: Find the pictures you want to put on the disc

  7. Step 7: and drag them to the folder of the disc.

  8. Step 8: Click "Write files to disc"

  9. Step 9: it should be somewhere near the top left of the CD folder's window.

  10. Step 10: Once the pictures have been written to the CD

  11. Step 11: it is then ready to use.

  12. Step 12: Complete!

Detailed Guide

If there is no CD-ROM drive on your computer, you have to buy an external one and install the driver to the computer.

, If the file(s) is/are "read-only"

when you put the pictures on, the old file(s) will be deleted. ,, If it does not exactly say those words, look for something similar to that. , The pictures can be opened on any kind of computer OS. ,

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