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User’s Manual 4-30
Operating Basics
Writing CD/DVD/HD DVDs on HD DVD-RW drive
Some models are equipped with a full-size HD DVD-RW drive, which can
be used to write data to either CD-R or CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD-
RW, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD-RAM, HD DVD-R, HD DVD-R DL, HD
DVD-RW 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 (HD DVD-RW drive)
Before you write or rewrite to any of the media supported by the HD DVD-
RW 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-R DL 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-RI-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.