Using the CD-ROM Drive

Compact discs are designed so that you can easily insert one into the computer when you need it, and then remove it.

1.Press the button on the CD-ROM drive, and the tray slides out. (Do not lean on the tray; it does not support much weight.)

If the tray fails to slide out it may be stuck, in which case straighten out a paper clip, insert it into the small hole in the front of the CD-ROM and push it until the tray ejects.

2.Insert a CD (compact disc), label side up (or remove a disc, if you have finished using it).

3.Push the tray in gently to close the drive tray (Figure 15).

A light on the drive tray is on when the computer is reading from a CD. Do not remove a disc when this light is on.

Emergency eject button

Eject Button

CD-ROM Light

Figure 15. Using the CD-ROM Drive

Install and start a CD-based program as you would run a program on a floppy disk. See your operating system documentation for more information on running programs.

The name of the CD-ROM drive is the letter following the letter assigned to your last hard drive. For instance, if you have one hard drive with two hard drive partitions, the hard drive is drives C: and D: and the CD-ROM drive is drive E.

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