Burning to cd

When I open Media Player it asks me to connect an external burner. I thought you could burn to cds with Media Player, previous system Windows 7 Home.

I do see the burn tab in Windows Media Player here under Windows 10. My CD writer has the drive letter F: (it is an internal drive) and this is also the drive, which WMP tells me to put a CD in to start burning. What drive does your Media Player show you in the burn tab? For me it looks like it should be working...

It says ' Connect a burner and restart the player'. Does that mean that there isn't an integral burner in Media Player. I don't want to by a burner just to burn one cd.

It says ' Connect a burner and restart the player'. Does that mean that there isn't an integral burner in Media Player. I don't want to by a burner just to burn one cd.

That message has always meant to me that either the Optical Drive/ODD can't burn to disc, is a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM, or if present isn't being recognized by the OS/Operating System. WMP can be used to Rip songs from a CD and also burn songs to a blank disc, usually the R type, not RW. I have, in a number of cases, installed CDBurnerXP to diagnose whether burning problems were software or hardware related and it works in Win10 32-bit and 64-bit. Since the laser inside an ODD produces some heat it's not unusual for older ODDs to fail.
CDBurnerXP: Free CD and DVD burning software

Thanks for that helpful reply. I assumed my pc (built by my local shop) came with a burner. I'll speak to the shop to clarify the position. Thanks once again.

Thanks for that helpful reply. I assumed my pc (built by my local shop) came with a burner. I'll speak to the shop to clarify the position. Thanks once again.

Just go into your file explorer and find out for yourself.

Thanks for that helpful reply. I assumed my pc (built by my local shop) came with a burner. I'll speak to the shop to clarify the position. Thanks once again.

You should see a marking on the face of any CD/DVD tray that mentions RW, ReWritable, etc., if it can burn discs. Having determined that then the software comes into the issue.

Assuming you get the drive sorted there's plent of free burning appliactions, e.g. CDBurnerXP

It says Super Writemaster on the tray so I'm assuming there is/was a burner in there somewhere.
Can't find anything in File Explorer but I'm not sure what I was looking for, certainly 'burner' gives me no results.
Come to think of it I burnt a couple of audio albums to c d's a couple of months ago so something must have happened when I upgraded to Windows 10, something I'm beginning to regret.

It says Super Writemaster on the tray so I'm assuming there is/was a burner in there somewhere.
Can't find anything in File Explorer but I'm not sure what I was looking for, certainly 'burner' gives me no results.
Come to think of it I burnt a couple of audio albums to c d's a couple of months ago so something must have happened when I upgraded to Windows 10, something I'm beginning to regret.

That is a burner but if a burning program doesn't recognize it there may be an issue. They usually are not expensive to replace, I've gotten them for around $50US, may even be cheaper than that now. The drives are combinations of reader and writer in one.