HP 3050US, 3016US, 3017CL Planning Your Source and Destination Drives, Choosing Recording Media

CD and DVD Software

Planning Your Source and Destination Drives

If you plan to use a network drive during a copying procedure, do not copy directly from the source drive (the drive you are copying from) to the destination drive (the drive you are copying to).

Instead, copy from the source drive to your hard drive. Then copy from your hard drive to the destination drive.

Choosing Recording Media

Compaq recommends using high-quality media that correspond to the maximum speed of the optical drive.

The notebook can write or copy to CD-Rs (which provide one-time, non-erasable recording) or to CD-RWs (which provide erasable recording.)

Responding to the UDF Prompt

The first time you insert a CD-RW into an optical drive, you may be prompted to install Universal Disk Format (UDF) Reader.

When UDF Reader is installed, a CD created with DirectCD on your notebook can be used in another computer on which DirectCD is not installed.

Compaq recommends that you install UDF Reader.

✎Even if UDF Reader is installed on your notebook, a CD-R created with DirectCD software can be used in a compatible CD-ROM drive only if you select the Rearrange the Files option as you create the CD-R.

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