- 1). Insert your blank DVD into any DVD-compatible optical disc drive on your computer. This can be a DVD-ROM drive or a DVD-RW drive.
- 2). Close the disc tray on your DVD-compatible optical disc drive. The blank DVD will begin to quietly spin in the drive's disc tray.
- 3). Click "Start."
- 4). Click "Computer."
- 5). Right-click on the icon for your DVD-compatible optical disc drive. Click "Explore." This will open a new folder-browsing window containing the disc's contents. As the disc is blank, the folder displaying onscreen will be empty.