It will ask if you want to create a floppy or a CD image, select the image option. The file you download is called mtinst.exe and you'll double click it. But just to test the CD drive functionality, use this: I mentioned the UBCD4Win and Knoppix because they are essentially operating systems that run from the CD you could boot to 'em and access your data if you needed to. A real easy way to just test the functionality of the drive would be to download something MUCH smaller and quicker (like a memory diagnostic) and create a bootable CD from that.
The UBCD4Win is actually a program and you'd run it with your XP disc and it creates an ISO image when it's done you then burn the image. Knoppix will download as an ISO image which you would burn to a CD and by it's very nature, it will finalize the CD when it's burned. You can obtain Knoppix and the UBCD4Win by downloading them, both are free.
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