Using The Cd-R/Rw Drive; Storing And Cleaning Your Discs; Solving Recording Problems; Hard Drive - Samsung SW-224 Guia Del Usuario

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Using the CD-R/RW Drive

To play audio or video CDs in your CD-R/RW drive, proceed as follows.
1
Push the power button and boot the computer.
2
After booting the computer, open the disc
compartment by pressing the Eject button.
3
Insert the disc (CD) with the label on the disc
facing upwards and close the disc compartment
by pressing the Eject button.
The indicator light comes on.
4
Play the disc (CD).
Playing Audio CDs
Run the CD player supplied with Windows or your sound card. You can listen to
the CD by connecting headphones to the appropriate connector. If you have
installed the appropriate player, such as Microsoft Windows Media Player, you can
adjust the volume using the headphone volume control on the drive front panel.
If you select DIGITAL at CD Audio Play in Media Player of Windows ME,
the earphone does not appear in the Digital Mode.

Storing and Cleaning Your Discs

To ensure a long service life for your discs and drive, follow the pre-
cautions below when storing and cleaning your discs.
1
Do not place a disc in direct sunlight.
2
Store a disc vertically in a well-ventilated and
stable location.
3
Do not write or attach a label on a disc.
4
Do not drop a disc or place heavy objects on it.
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5
Do not touch the surface of a disc; hold it by the
edges.
6
To clean a disc, polish lightly from the inside of the
disc to the outside with a soft cotton cloth.
7
Do not leave the disc compartment open when you
are not using it.

Solving Recording Problems

If you have any problems recording via your CD-R/RW drive, follow the
appropriate instructions below for the source that you are using.

Hard Drive

1
Check whether the source file is corrupted.
2
Optimize the hard disk by using the Windows defragmenter feature:
START / PROGRAMS / ACCESSORIES / SYSTEM TOOLS / DISC DEFRAGMENTER
3
Decompress the hard disk if it is compressed.
4
Make sure that the space available on the hard disk is at least twice the size
of the largest file to be recorded on the disc.
5
If you wish to record more than 1000 small files:
First create an image file and copy the image file to the disc; refer to the
section entitled "CD Creation from CD Image" in the CD record utility
documentation
Choose the low record speed
Compress small files and then record them
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