Using An Optical Drive; Identifying The Installed Optical Drive; Using Optical Discs (Cds And Dvds) - HP Presario CQ20-100 - Notebook PC User Manual

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Using an optical drive

Identifying the installed optical drive

Select Start > Computer.

Using optical discs (CDs and DVDs)

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 discs and some drives can also write to optical discs, as described
in the following table.
Optical drive type
DVD-ROM Drive
DVD/CD-RW Combo
Drive
DVD+/-RW SuperMulti
DL* LightScribe† Drive
*Double-layer (DL) discs can store more data than single-layer discs. However, double-layer discs burned with this drive may
not be compatible with many single-layer DVD drives and players.
†LightScribe discs must be purchased separately. LightScribe creates a grayscale image similar to black-and-white
photography.
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.
Read from CD-ROM Write to CD-R/RW
and DVD-ROM media media
Yes No
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Write to DVD-ROM Write label to
media (includes DVD LightScribe CD-ROM
+R DL, DVD+/-RW/R, and DVD-ROM media
and DVD-RAM)
No No
No No
Yes Yes
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