Tips On Using Your Cd-Rw Drive; Reading Your Cd-Rw And Cd-R Disks On Other Computers - HP Brio BA User Manual

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Tips on Using your CD-RW Drive

The following information applies only if you purchased a HP Brio PC equipped with

a CD-RW drive.

Your HP 8100 CD-Writer Plus is capable of writing data to both CD-R (Recordable or

write-once) disks and CD-RW (ReWriteable) disks. CD-RW disks are generally used

as if they were large-capacity floppy disks. CD-R disks are used to permanently

archive files.

Two software applications (from Adaptec) are pre-loaded on your HP Brio PC to

create CD-R or CD-RW disks — DirectCD for data backup and archiving, and

EasyCD Creator for CD duplication and distribution. DirectCD uses a new data

storage technology (UDF — Universal Data Format) to write data to a CD-RW or a

CD-R disk.

CD-RW and CD-R disks created with Adaptec's EasyCD Creator can be read on

Note

Multi-Read CD-ROM drives without the need for additional software.

If you want to be able to read your CD-RW disks (created with DirectCD) on another

computer that has a CD-ROM drive, check the following:

• Ensure the CD-ROM drive is Multi-Read. 24x and higher speed CD-ROM drives

are generally Multi-Read.

• Ensure that UDF reader software is installed on the target PC. This software lets

you read your data on the CD-RW disk using a Multi-Read CD-ROM. You can

download the software from http://www.adaptec.com/support/files/udfread-

ers.html.

If you want to be able to read your CD-R disk on another computer with a CD-ROM

drive, you'll need to end the writing session by choosing the option "close session"

prior to ejecting your CD-R disk.

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