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User’s Manual 4-16
Operating Basics
Writing CD/DVD/HD DVDs on HD DVD-R drives
You can use the HD DVD-R drive to write data to either CD-R, CD-RW,
DVD-R, DVD-R (Dual Layer), DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R (Double Layer),
DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, HD DVD-R or HD DVD-R (Dual Layer) discs.
TOSHIBA Disc Creator and Ulead DVD MovieFactory are provided as
writing software with this computer.
Double-sided
Single-Layer
HD DVD Recordable Layer Only 30GB
Double-sided
Dual-Layer
HD DVD Recordable Layer Only 60GB
HD DVD (Twin format disc)
Recordable Surface Recordable Layer Structure Capacity
Single-sided
Dual-Layer
HD DVD Recordable Layer 15GB
DVD Recordable Layer 4.7GB
The optical drive installed on this computer cannot write multiple sessions
on HD DVD-R Dual Layer 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-R/-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 - in these instances
data loss may occur.