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Using the CD or DVD drive
You can use your notebook to enjoy a wide variety of multimedia features.
Identifying drive types
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:
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| audio CDs, and accessing |
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| drive to create CDs or DVDs or |
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| play DVDs. |
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| DVD drive | Installing programs, playing |
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| accessing data. You cannot |
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| use this drive to create CDs or |
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| DVDs. |
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| accessing data, and recording |
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| CDs. You cannot use this drive |
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Installing programs, playing audio CDs, playing DVDs, accessing data, recording music and data to
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,orDL.Usingothertypes of blank media will result in less capacity.
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