HP EX691UA-NOOS manual Optical drives, Dvd-Rom ±Rw/R

Optical drives

An optical drive, such as a DVD-ROM drive, supports optical discs (CDs and DVDs). These discs are used to store or transport data and to play music and movies. DVDs have a higher capacity than CDs.

The computer can read or write to optical drives as described in the following table.

Type of Optical Drive	Read CD and	Write to CD-RW	Write to DVD	LightScribe
	DVD-ROM		±RW/R
DVD/CD-RW Drive	Yes	Yes	No	No
DVD±RW Double Layer	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
LightScribe DVD±RW Double	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Layer

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.

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