About Your Cd-Rewritable (Cd-Rw) Drive; Types Of Cd Media - HP Compaq Presario,Presario EZ2700 Reference Manual

About Your CD-ReWritable (CD-RW) Drive

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Your CD-RW drive has the following attributes:
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Types of CD
CD-R and CD-RW media have the following features:
Media
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Features of Your Internet PC
NOTE: For detailed information regarding your CD-RW drive and the just!burn
software, please refer to the CD-RW just!burn Feature Guide.
Supports standard CD-ROM, write-once CD-R, and rewritable CD-RW discs.
Can be used to create your own audio CDs, share information, and save data for
backups and other data storage needs.
HINT: For best compatibility, CD-RW discs should be played on a CD-RW drive.
CD-R discs can be used on nearly any computer system with a CD-ROM Drive.
CD-R is recommended for creating audio discs or sharing information between
computers.
CD-R discs can be written to only once. However, you can write to CD-R discs
over multiple recording sessions until you choose to finalize the disc.
(Finalization is explained under just!audio in The just!burn CD Assistant in this
section or in the online manual.)
CD-RW can be used to create CD backups of your personal CDs.
CD-RW discs are reusable and can be overwritten.
CD-RW discs are recommended for creating personal system backups.
HINT: Compaq recommends that the media used with your CD-RW drive is of high
quality. If you are unsuccessful with one media brand, please try another (media
quality varies from manufacturer to manufacturer).
(available on select models)
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