Owner's Manual

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Chapter 4: Using Drives and Ports

Using the CD or DVD drive

You can use your notebook to enjoy a wide variety of multimedia features.

Identifying drive types

Your Gateway notebook may contain one of the following drive types.

Look on the front of the drive for one or more of the following logos:

If your drive has this logo... This is your drive type... Use your drive for...

Combination

DVD/CD-RW drive

Installing programs,

playing audio CDs,

playing DVDs, accessing

data, and recording music

and data to recordable

CDs. You cannot use this

drive to create DVDs.

Multi-format

DVD

±RW/CD-RW

Installing programs,

playing audio CDs,

playing DVDs, accessing

data, recording music and

data to CD-R or CD-RW

discs, and recording video

and data to DVD-R,

DVD-RW, DVD+R, or

DVD+RW discs.

ROM/R/RW