Working with the notebook
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Optical drive
Your notebook is delivered with an optical drive. Depending on the variant, your notebook is
equipped with a DVD drive or a combo drive (CD-RW/DVD).
Optical drives can either only read or both read and write different optical data storage media. The
meaning of the respective optical data storage media is described in the following:
CD-ROM
Abbreviation for
C
ompact
D
isc -
R
ead
O
nly
M
emory. A CD-ROM is an optical data storage medium
that can contain a maximum of 700 Mbytes. These data cannot be changed.
CD-R
Abbreviation for
C
ompact
D
isc
R
ecordable. A CD-R is an optical data storage medium that can only
be written with a maximum of 700 Mbytes of data. Then these data cannot be changed, but can be
read as often as desired.
CD-RW
Abbreviation for
C
ompact
D
isc
R
e
W
riteable. A CD-RW is an optical data storage medium that can
be written with a maximum of 700 Mbyte of data a virtually unlimited number of times. This means
the data can be deleted and changed.
DVD (DVD-ROM and DVD video)
Abbreviation for
D
igital
V
ersatile
D
isc or
D
igital
V
ideo
D
isc. A DVD is an optical data storage
medium that can contain a maximum of 17 Gbytes of data. These data cannot be changed.
Combo drive (CD-RW/DVD)
!
The combo drive in your notebook contains a light-emitting diode (LED), classification as
per IEC 825-1:1993: CLASS 1 LASER, and may therefore not be opened.
With the combo drive you can read all optical data storage media named above. You can also write
CD-Rs and CD-RWs.
DVD drive
!
The DVD drive in your notebook contains a light-emitting diode (LED), classification as
per IEC 825-1:1993: CLASS 1 LASER, and may therefore not be opened.
With the DVD drive you can read all optical data storage media named above.
