Place a blank CD or DVD in your drive

You will then see the following window appear asking you what type of CD/DVD you would like to create

For backup purposes you are best to choose With a CD/DVD player - as the other option would allow you to delete files from the CD/DVD which means you could accidentally delete backed-up files

Click Next to continue

File Explorer will then open showing you the CD/DVD drive

You can add files/folders by dragging them to this window (as shown below)

or you can add items by right mouse clicking on a file or folder and choosing Send to > DVD RW Drive

Once you have finished adding all the files/folders you wish to write to CD/DVD - click on Finish burning as highlighted below

Your will then see the following screen - where you can enter a title for your CD/DVD - change recording speed (doesn't usually need changing from the default) and then click Next to continue

You will then see the progress of the files being burnt to CD/DVD

When the disk is complete it will automatically eject and you will see the following screen - where you can choose to burn the files to another CD/DVD or click Finish to close the wizard