HP CQ20 manual Using optical discs

Using optical discs

An optical drive, such as a DVD-ROM drive, supports optical discs (CDs and DVDs). These discs store information, such as music, photos, and movies. DVDs have a higher storage capacity than CDs.

Your optical drive can read standard CD and DVD discs. If your optical drive is a Blu-ray Disc ROM Drive, it can also read Blu-ray discs.

NOTE: Some of the optical drives listed may not be supported by your computer. The listed drives are not necessarily all of the supported optical drives.

Some optical drives can also write to optical discs as described in the following table.

Optical drive type	Write to CD-RW	Write to	Write to DVD+R	Write label to	Write to HD DVD
		DVD±RW/R	DL	LightScribe CD or
				DVD±RW/R
DVD±RW/R and	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
CD-RW Combo
Drive
DVD±RW/R and	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
CD-RW Combo
Drive with DL
support
HD DVD-R Drive	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
with SuperMulti
DVD±R/RW DL
support
HD DVD-ROM	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Drive with
SuperMulti
DVD±R/RW DL
support
LightScribe	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
DVD±RW/R and
CD-RW Combo
Drive with DL
support
Blu-ray Disc ROM	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
Drive with
SuperMulti
DVD±R/RW DL
support

CAUTION: To prevent possible audio and video degradation, loss of information, or loss of audio or video playback functionality, do not initiate Sleep or Hibernation while reading or writing to a CD or DVD.

To prevent loss of information, do not initiate Sleep or Hibernation when writing to a CD or DVD.

16 Chapter 5 Optical drive