Dell 400 owner manual Using Blank CDs and DVDs, Helpful Tips

4To copy the CD or DVD:

•If you have one optical drive, ensure that the settings are correct and click Copy. The computer reads your source CD or DVD disc and copies it to a temporary folder on your computer hard drive.

When prompted, insert a blank CD or DVD disc into the optical drive and click OK.

•If you have two optical drives, select the drive into which you have inserted your source CD or DVD disc and click Copy. The computer copies the data on the CD or DVD to the blank CD or DVD.

After you finish copying the source CD or DVD, the CD or DVD that you created automatically ejects.

Using Blank CDs and DVDs

Use blank CD-Rs to record music or permanently store data files. After creating a CD-R disc, you cannot write to that CD-R again (see the Sonic documentation for more information). Use blank CD-RWs to write to CD or to erase, rewrite, or update data on CDs.

Your DVD-writable drive can write to six different types of recording media—CD-Rs, CD-RWs (including high-speed CD-RWs), DVD+/-Rs, and DVD+/-RWs. Blank DVD+/-Rs can be used to permanently store large amounts of information; however, you may not be able to write to the disc again if the disc is "finalized" or "closed" during the final stage of the disc creation process. Use blank DVD+/-RWs if you plan to erase, rewrite, or update information on the disc later.

Helpful Tips

•Use Microsoft® Windows® Explorer to drag and drop files to a CD-R or CD-RW disc only after you start Sonic RecordNow! and open a RecordNow! project.

•You must use CD-R discs to burn music CDs that you want to play in regular stereos. CD-RWs do not play in most home or car stereos.

•You cannot create audio DVDs with Sonic RecordNow!.

•Music MP3 files can be played only on MP3 players or on computers that have MP3 software installed.

•Do not burn a blank CD-R or CD-RW to its maximum capacity; for example, do not copy a 650-MB file to a 650-MB blank CD. The optical drive needs 1 or 2 MB of the blank CD to finalize the recording.

•Use a blank CD-RW to practice CD recording until you are familiar with CD recording techniques. If you make a mistake, you can erase the data on the CD-RWs and try again. You can also use blank CD-RWs to test music file projects before you record the project permanently to a blank CD-R.

•See the Sonic support website at support.sonic.com for additional information.

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