CHAPTER 2: Checking Out Your Gateway Notebook

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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:

If your drive has this logo...

This is your drive type...

Use your drive for...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DVD drive

Installing programs, playing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

audio CDs, playing DVDs, and

 

 

 

 

accessing data. You cannot use

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

this drive to create CDs or DVDs.

 

 

 

 

 

Combination DVD/CD-RW drive

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.

Multi-format double layer DVD±RW/CD-RW

ROM/R/RW drive

Installing programs, playing audio CDs, playing DVDs, accessing data, recording music and data to CD-R or CD-RW discs, and recording video and data to DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, or 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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