Using An Optical Drive - HP Compaq 6710s User Manual

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Using an optical drive

An optical drive, such as a DVD-ROM drive, supports optical discs (CDs and DVDs). These discs store
or transport information and play music and movies. DVDs have a higher storage capacity than CDs.
All optical drives can read from optical media and some drives can also write to optical media, as
described in the following table.
Optical drive
type
DVD-ROM
Drive
DVD±RW/R
and CD-RW
Combo Drive
DVD±RW/R
and CD-RW
Combo Drive
with Double-
Layer support
LightScribe
DVD±RW/R
and CD-RW
Combo Drive
with Double-
Layer support
NOTE:
are not necessarily all of the supported optical drives.
CAUTION:
functionality, do not initiate Sleep or Hibernation while reading from or writing to a CD or DVD.
To prevent loss of information, do not initiate Sleep or Hibernation when writing to a CD or DVD.
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Read from CD Write to CD-
and DVD-ROM RW media
media
Yes No
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Some of the optical drives listed may not be supported by your computer. The listed drives
To prevent possible audio and video degradation, or loss of audio or video playback
Write to DVD Write to DVD
±RW/R media +RW DL media
No No
Yes No
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Write label to Write to DVD-
LightScribe RAM media
CD or DVD
±RW/R
No No
No No
No Yes
Yes Yes
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