Using The Cd Or Dvd Drive; Identifying Drive Types - Gateway Notebook Hardware Reference Manual

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Using the CD or DVD drive

Identifying drive types

You can use your notebook to enjoy a wide variety of multimedia features.
Your Gateway notebook may contain one of the following drive types. Look on
the front of the drive for one or more of the following logos:
If your drive has this logo...
ROM/R/RW
This is your drive type...
CD drive
DVD drive
Combination
DVD/CD-RW drive
Multi-format double
layer DVD RW/CD-RW
±
drive
Using the CD or DVD drive
Use your drive for...
Installing programs, playing
audio CDs, and accessing data.
You cannot use this drive to create
CDs or DVDs or play DVDs.
Installing programs, playing
audio CDs, playing DVDs, and
accessing data. You cannot use
this drive to create CDs or DVDs.
Installing programs, playing
audio CDs, playing DVDs,
accessing data, and recording
music and data to recordable CDs.
You cannot use this drive to create
DVDs.
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-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW,
DVD+RW, or double layer DVD+R
discs.
Note: To use the double layer
capability of the double layer
recordable DVD drive, the blank
DVDs you purchase must state
Double Layer, Dual Layer, or DL.
Using other types of blank media
will result in less capacity.
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