Satellite P20 - copying CDs and DVDs

I recently had a problem with Windows on my Toshiba Satellite P20 laptop. I ended up having to use the Toshiba recovery disk which came with the laptop and have slowly started to get things back to normal. However, I wanted to set up the facility that would allow me to copy my CDs and DVDs.
I must have done this in the past when I bought the laptop 2 years ago but am having trouble setting it up now. If the laptop came with a CD/DVD writer would they have supplied the software as well? I can't find it on any disks at all which came with the laptop or should I assume I installed the software separately of my own device. I can't even remember what it was called.

Hi,
I found out that this was installed by factory defaults on some P20 models:
Drag'n Drop CDRW Software V3.00.259
DVD Fun STUDIO (for creating titles etc. on a DVD and for writing on DVD-R (but not on DVD-RAM or DVD-RW))
If you have one of these models, this should also be included on the recovery disc.
But as Jeffrey says I would also prefer burning software like Nero.
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