Using The Cd Or Dvd Drive; Identifying Drive Types - Gateway Tower User Manual

Chapter 6: Using Multimedia

Using the CD or DVD drive

Identifying drive types

Important
Your Gateway computer may contain one of the following drive types. Look
on the front of the drive for one of the following logos:
CD drive
CD-RW drive
DVD drive
Combination
DVD/CD-RW
drive
Combination
DVD-RAM/
-R/-RW/CD-RW
Drive
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The bezel on the Gateway Micro Tower case may hide the
drive logo. To find out which drive type is installed in your
computer, check your computer's specifications. For more
information, see "Finding your specifications" on page 21.
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Use a CD drive for installing programs, playing
audio CDs, and accessing data.
Use a CD-RW drive for installing programs,
playing audio CDs, accessing data, and
creating CDs.
You can only write to a CD-R disc once. You
can write to and erase CD-RW discs multiple
times. For more information, see "Using a
recordable drive" on page 111.
Use a DVD drive for installing programs,
playing audio CDs, playing DVDs, and
accessing data.
Use a combination DVD/CD-RW drive for
installing programs, playing audio CDs, playing
DVDs, accessing data, and recording music
and data to CD-R or CD-RW discs. For more
information, see "Using a recordable drive" on
page 111.
Use a combination DVD-RAM/-R/-RW/CD-RW
drive for installing programs, playing audio
CDs, playing DVDs, accessing data, recording
music and data to CD-R or CD-RW discs, and
recording video and data to DVD-RAM, DVD-R,
or DVD-RW discs. For more information, see
"Using a recordable drive" on page 111.