Toshiba Satellite L350D PSLE0C-SM308C Users Manual Canada; English - Page 101

Operating Basics ■ If the disc is poor in quality, or is dirty or damaged, writing or rewriting errors may be noted - ensure that you check all discs for dirt or damage before you use them. ■ The actual number of rewrites to CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVDRAM or HD DVD-RW media will be affected by the quality of the disc itself and the way in which it is used. ■ There are two types of DVD-R media available, authoring discs and general use discs. Do not attempt to use authoring discs as only general use discs can be written to by a computer drive ■ You can use both DVD-RAM discs that can be removed from a cartridge and DVD-RAM discs designed without a cartridge. ■ You may find that other computer DVD-ROM drives or other DVD PLAYERS may not be able to read DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD+RW, HD DVD-R or HD DVD-RW discs. ■ Data written to a CD-R, DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, HD DVD-R or HD DVD-R DL discs cannot be deleted either in whole or in part. ■ Data deleted/erased from a CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, HD DVD-R or HD DVD-R DL disc cannot be recovered. You must check the content of the disc carefully before you delete it, taking care that, if multiple drives that can write data to discs are connected, you do not delete data from the wrong one. ■ In writing to DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, HD DVD-R, HD DVD-R DL or HD DVD-RW media, some space is required for file management, so you may not be able to write to the full capacity of the disc. ■ Since the disc is based on the DVD standard, it might be filled with dummy data if the written data is less than about 1 GB. Therefore, in these circumstance, even if you write only a small amount of data, it might take additional time to fill in the dummy data. User's Manual 4-27