Drives User Guide

Table of contents
1 Handling drives
2 Using an optical drive
Identifying the installed optical drive ..................................................................................................... 3
Using optical discs ................................................................................................................................ 4
Selecting the right disc ......................................................................................................................... 5
CD-R discs ........................................................................................................................... 5
CD-RW discs ....................................................................................................................... 5
DVD±R discs ....................................................................................................................... 5
DVD±RW discs .................................................................................................................... 5
LightScribe DVD+R discs .................................................................................................... 5
Blu-ray Disc (BD) ................................................................................................................. 6
Playing an optical disc .......................................................................................................................... 7
Configuring AutoPlay ............................................................................................................................ 8
Changing DVD region settings ............................................................................................................. 9
Observing the copyright warning ........................................................................................................ 10
Copying a CD or DVD ........................................................................................................................ 11
Creating (burning) a CD or DVD ........................................................................................................ 12
Removing an optical disc ................................................................................................................... 13
3 Improving hard drive performance
Using Disk Defragmenter ................................................................................................................... 14
Using Disk Cleanup ............................................................................................................................ 14
4 Replacing the hard drive
5 Troubleshooting
The optical disc tray does not open .................................................................................................... 18
The computer does not detect the optical drive ................................................................................. 19
A disc does not play ........................................................................................................................... 20
A disc does not play automatically ..................................................................................................... 21
A DVD movie stops, skips, or plays erratically ................................................................................... 22
A DVD movie is not visible on an external display ............................................................................. 23
The process of burning a disc does not begin, or it stops before completion .................................... 24
A DVD playing in Windows Media Player produces no sound or display ........................................... 25
A device driver must be reinstalled .................................................................................................... 25
Obtaining Microsoft device drivers ..................................................................................... 25
Obtaining HP device drivers .............................................................................................. 26
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