Medion PC MT6 MED MT Series, Getting Started Manual

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H
OW TO REMOVE A
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1. Press the eject button (drawing reference, B ) at
the front of the CD-ROM drive to open the drawer.
2. Remove the disc and store it in the CD cover in a
safe place.
While the computer is accessing the CD-ROM
drive, the corresponding LED display ( ) is lit.
In this case do not try to remove the CD from
the drive.
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The optical drives can be used for booting the operating sys-
tem. If the PC does not boot, it is possible that autostart is
turned off in the BIOS or the CD is not bootable.
DVD T
ECHNOLOGY
The Compact Disc (CD) was introduced in 1982.
Who could imagined doing without the CD as a storage me-
dium for data, multimedia, computer games and video now?
A CD can hold up to 700 MB of data, but that amount is too
small to store a high-quality encoding of an entire feature
film. The DVD ( D igital V ersatile Disc ) has the same dimen-
sions as a CD but store more data at a greater density. In
some cases, both sides of the DVD can be used to store in-
formation. Furthermore, each side can contain two layers of
information (dual layer).
Thanks to high data density, the transfer speed is considera-
bly higher than for a CD, so that a DVD drive with 6 times
speed can transfer considerably more data than a 6-speed
CD drive.
A DVD drive can also read both DVD-ROMs and CD-ROMs,
providing the user access to an astounding amount of media.