CHAPTER 2: Checking Out Your Gateway Notebook | www.gateway.com |
Using the 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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Combination
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.
ROM/R/RW drive
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, or DL. Using other types of blank media will result in less capacity.
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