Using An Optical Drive - HP Pavilion HDX9000 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.
Optical drives can read from and select models can write to optical media as described in the following
table.
Optical drive
type
HD-DVD
DVD±RW/R
and CD-RW
Combo Drive
with Double-
Layer support
LightScribe
DVD±RW and
CD-RW Combo
Drive with
Double-Layer
support
NOTE: Some of the optical drives listed may not be supported by your computer. The listed drives are not
necessarily all of the supported optical drives.
CAUTION:
functionality, do not initiate Sleep or Hibernation while reading 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.
If Sleep or Hibernation is initiated during playback of a disc, you may experience the following behaviors:
●
Your playback may be interrupted.
●
You may see a warning message asking if you want to continue. If this message is displayed, click
No.
● You may need to restart the CD or DVD to resume audio and video playback.
Read CD and Write to CD-
DVD-ROM RW media
media
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
To prevent possible audio and video degradation, or loss of audio or video playback
Write to DVD Write to DVD
±RW/R media +R DL media
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Write label to Write to DVD-
LightScribe RAM media
CD or DVD
±RW/R
No Yes
No Yes
Yes Yes
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