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Using optical discs – HP Compaq Presario CQ42-210AU Notebook PC User Manual

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Using optical discs

An optical drive plays optical discs. Your optical drive can read standard CD and DVD discs, and if it is
a Blu-ray Disc ROM Drive, it can also read Blu-ray Discs (BDs).

These discs store information, such as music, photos, and movies. DVDs have a larger storage capacity
than CDs, and BDs have the largest capacity of all.

NOTE:

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.

Some optical drives can also write to optical discs as described in the following table.

Optical drive type

Write to CD-RW

Write to DVD±RW/R

Write to DVD±R DL

Write label to
LightScribe CD or
DVD±RW/R

DVD±RW and CD-RW
SuperMulti DL Combo
Drive

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

DVD±RW and CD-RW
SuperMulti DL Combo
Drive with LightScribe

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Blu-ray ROM DVD±R/
RW SuperMulti DL
Drive

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Blu-ray ROM with
LightScribe DVD±R/
RW SuperMulti DL
Drive

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

CAUTION:

To prevent possible audio and video degradation, loss of information, or loss of audio or

video playback functionality, do not initiate Sleep or Hibernation while reading or writing to a disc.

Optical drive

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