HP CQ32 manual Using optical discs, Dvd±Rw/R

Using optical discs

An optical drive plays optical discs. Your optical drive can read standard CD and DVD discs, and if it is a Blu-ray Disc ROM Drive, it can also read Blu-ray Discs (BDs).

These discs store information, such as music, photos, and movies. DVDs have a larger storage capacity than CDs, and BDs have the largest capacity of all.

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 DVD±RW/R	Write to DVD±R DL	Write label to
				LightScribe CD or
				DVD±RW/R
DVD±R and CD-RW	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
SuperMulti DL Combo
Drive
DVD±R and CD-RW	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SuperMulti DL Combo
Drive with LightScribe
Blu-ray ROM	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
DVD±R/RW
SuperMulti DL Drive
Blu-ray ROM with	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
LightScribe
DVD±R/RW
SuperMulti DL Drive

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 disc.

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