I have a pretty old home pc (packard bell iConnect 1300) which is slowly grinding to a halt. I intent to replace this with a new model and I will need to copy information accross when I get sorted out. I don't know if the dvd drive in my old pc has the facility to burn information to cd's as I have lost the instructions manual. Is there any way of looking up this information on the pc and if so what should I be looking for which would indicate that I can burn cd's.
I presume your PC doesn't have USB ports. Your DVD drive probably does have CD-burning — look for the tag, as Pique318 has said, or got to Start/Control Panel/System/Hardware and open the Device Manager, then right-click on the CD-ROM/DVD drive to display its properties. If it says 'RW' anywhere in the label, it'll do the job.