A USB drive is one of those small devices that you can plug into your USB port. You could also use a SD card (like digital cameras use) and put it in a card reader that goes into a USB port. You just click and drag your files onto the USB Drive - these are also called "thumb drives" or "flash drives" or "flash media". They would not be the ideal solution for long term storage. What is the age of your computer. Most computers now come with some type of burner. I have had mine since 2001 and it was more of an "option" back then. I have installed a DVD burner and find that quite useful, as DVD's store much more data. You can get burners that plug into the USB drives also.

Did you get any CD burning software with your computer? Two common programs are Roxio and Nero. Usually, when you get a computer with CD/DVD burners, they include some software for burning. If you got one of those, there should be an option that says something like copy an audio CD (or maybe just copy a cd). If you don't have one of those, let us know. There are probably free programs that will do what you want. It's just that you may already have something installed and not need to download anything.

it may be the cd you are trying to copy, I know the walmart photo cd's that I have had in the past were not always copyable they contain special coding or something that can make it hard if not impossible to copy sometimes. but with most photo cd's you just put the cd in the cd drawer and it will pop up a box asking what you want to do, you want to copy to disc, or you can just drag and drop the pics from the disc to a folder on your pc. Right click on the picture itself and you should have some options like save as or copy to you can use those also to tell it where to put the picture. this is the type of situation I have run into with the walmart cd, this is a quote from a website. "WalMart Photo and also Kodak photo processing--available at nearly any supermarket, drug store, etc.--offer to put your photos on a CD along with developed prints. But, included with the CD images of your photos is proprietary photo/album management software. The photo/albun software seems to be pushed on the consumer to make it his primary photo management software program. These programs include a (re)ORDER PRINTS and/or ENLARGEMENTS function. The objective is to cause the consumer to keep using only THAT photo processing source and photo management program on his PC! Either the Walmart or the Kodak software MUST be loaded to even view the photos on the respective CD or to copy the images to your PC's hard drive. Without loading the proprietary software, you cannot view, edit or copy your photos! " I refuse to load any extra software on my pc if I can not do it with the programs I have then too bad. I will not risk putting spyware on my pc.

Is the music copyright protected?