4-22 User’s Manual
Operating Basics

Writing CD/DVD/HD DVDs on HD DVD-RW drives

You can use the HD DVD-RW drive to write data to either CD-R or CD-RW,
DVD-R, DVD-R (Dual Layer), DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R (Double Layer),
DVD-RAM, HD DVD-R, HD DVD-R (Dual layer) discs. This computer is
provided with TOSHIBA Disc Creator and Ulead® DVD MovieFactory® to
allow for the writing to CD, DVD and HD DVD media.
For further information on TOSHIBA Disc Creator and Ulead® DVD
MovieFactory®, 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
DVDRW 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-RW 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.
The optical drive installed on this computer cannot write multiple sessions
on HD DVD-RW disc sessions. Once a disc has been written to once, it will
be finalized. Once finalized, no further writing to the disc will be possible
regardless of what portion of the total disc capacity was used.
■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-R/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.