Gateway GT5062b Identifying optical drive types

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Identifying optical drive types

Your computer may contain one of the following drive types. Press the drive’s eject button, then Look on the front of the drive’s disc tray for one or more of the following logos:

If your optical drive has	Yourdrivetype	Use your drive for...
this logo...	is...
	CD	Installing programs, playing
		audio CDs, and accessing data.
	CD-RW	Installing programs, playing
		audio CDs, accessing data, and
		creating CDs.
	DVD/CD-RW	Installing programs, playing
		audio CDs, accessing data,
		creating CDs, and playing
		DVDs.
	DVD	Installing programs, playing
		audio CDs, playing DVDs, and
		accessing data.
	DVD+RW	Installing programs, playing
		audio CDs, playing DVDs,
		accessing data, and recording
		video and data to CDs and
		DVD+R or DVD+RW discs.
	DVD R/RW	Installing programs, playing
		audio CDs, playing DVDs,
		accessing data, and recording
		video and data to CDs and
		DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, and
		DVD-RW discs.
	Double layer	Installing programs, playing
	DVD+RW	audio CDs, playing DVDs,
		accessing data, and recording
		video and data to CDs and
		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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