HP Presario Table of contents

Table of contents

1 Handling drives
2 Using an optical drive
Identifying the installed optical drive .....................................................................................................	2
Using optical discs ................................................................................................................................	3
Selecting the right disc .........................................................................................................................	4
CD-R discs ...........................................................................................................................	4
CD-RW discs .......................................................................................................................	4
DVD±R discs .......................................................................................................................	4
DVD±RW discs ....................................................................................................................	4
LightScribe DVD+R discs ....................................................................................................	4
Blu-ray Disc .........................................................................................................................	5
Playing a CD or DVD ............................................................................................................................	5
Using AutoPlay .....................................................................................................................................	6
Changing DVD region settings .............................................................................................................	6
Observing the copyright warning ..........................................................................................................	6
Copying a CD or DVD ..........................................................................................................................	7
Creating or “burning” a CD or DVD ......................................................................................................	7
Removing an optical disc (CD or DVD) ................................................................................................	8
3 Improving hard drive performance
Using Disk Defragmenter .....................................................................................................................	9
Using Disk Cleanup ..............................................................................................................................	9
4 Replacing the hard drive
5 Troubleshooting
The optical disc tray does not open for removal of a CD or DVD .......................................................	13
The computer does not detect the optical drive .................................................................................	14
A disc does not play ...........................................................................................................................	15
A disc does not play automatically .....................................................................................................	16
The process of burning a disc does not begin, or it stops before completion ....................................	16
A device driver must be reinstalled ....................................................................................................	17
Obtaining the latest HP device drivers ...............................................................................	17
Obtaining the latest Windows device drivers .....................................................................	18
Index ...................................................................................................................................................................	19

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