HP A903TU, A930XX, A918CA, A924CA, A928CA, A913CL, A916NR, A909US, A910CA Using an optical drive, ±Rw/R

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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	Read CD and	Write to CD-	Write to DVD	Write to DVD	Write label to	Write to DVD-
type	DVD-ROM	RW media	±RW/R media	+RW DL media	LightScribe	RAM media
	media				CD or DVD
					±RW/R
DVD±RW and	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
CD-RW
SuperMulti
Double-Layer
Combo Drive
DVD±RW and	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
CD-RW
SuperMulti
Double-Layer
Combo Drive
with
LightScribe

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: To prevent possible audio and video degradation, or loss of audio or video playback 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 drive media, 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.

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