Operating Basics
4-36 User’s Manual
O
PERATING
B
ASICS
For further information on TOSHIBA Disc Creator and Ulead® DVD MovieFac-
tory®, please refer to each software’s online manual or online helps. Refer to HD
DVD Guide for information on accessing the online manual or online help.
Important message
Before you write or rewrite to any of the media supported by the HD DVD-R
drive, please read and follow all of the setup and operating instructions in this
section. If you fail to do so, you may find that the HD DVD-R drive may not
function properly, and you may fail to write or rewrite information successfully -
this may cause you to either lose data or incur other damage to the drive or
media.
Legal Footnotes
TOSHIBA does not bear responsibility for the following:
◆Damage to any CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-R (Dual Layer), DVD-RW,
DVD+R, DVD+R (Double Layer), DVD+RW, DVD-RAM or HD DVD-R
disc that may be caused by writing or rewriting with this product.
◆Any change or loss of the recorded contents of CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-
R,DVD-R (Dual Layer), DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R (Double
Layer),DVD+RW, DVD-RAM or HD DVD-R media that may be caused by
writing or rewriting with this product, or for any business profit loss or busi-
ness interruption that may be caused by the change or loss of the recorded
contents.
❑Please refer to the Writable discs, Chapter 2 for details about
the types of writable CD, DVD and HD DVD discs that can
be supported by this computer.
❑Do not turn off the power to the optical disc drive while the
computer is accessing it as this may cause you to lose data.
❑CD-R/RW media cannot be accessed using the Create CD/
DVD option in Media Center.
❑To write data to CD-RI-RW media, use the TOSHIBA Disc
Creator feature that is installed on your computer.
When writing information to media using an optical drive, you
should always ensure that you connect the AC adaptor to a live
power socket. It is possible that, if data is written while powered
by the battery pack, the write process may sometimes fail due to
low battery power - these instances data loss may occur.