Locating Components Inside The Pc; Removing And Replacing Drives - HP -380467-003 - COMPAQ PRESARIO C300 C500 C700 F500 F700 LAPTOP CHARGER Manual

Locating Components Inside the PC

A Upper optical drive bay, may be a CD-ROM,
CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD+RW, or combination
drive
B Lower optical drive bay, may be empty (blank
plate) or a CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM,
DVD+RW, or combination drive
C Diskette (floppy) drive (select models)
D Memory card reader (select models)
E Hard disk drive with an expansion bay for
second hard disk drive (select models)
F Hard disk drive or an expansion bay for
second hard disk drive (select models)
: If your PC comes with a cage around your
NOTE
hard disk drive, (E) is the primary hard disk drive and
(F) is an expansion bay for a second hard disk drive.
If your PC does not come with this cage, (F) is your
primary hard disk drive.
4
Upgrading and Servicing Guide
Removing and
Replacing Drives
Your PC includes several drives that you can replace
or upgrade. See "Locating Components Inside the PC"
on page 4.
CAUTION: Back up your personal files on
the hard disk drive to an external
storage device, such as a CD, before
removing the hard disk drive. Failure to
do so will result in data loss. After
replacing the hard disk drive, you need
to run System Recovery using the
recovery discs to load the factory-
installed files. See the User's Guide for
details about the recovery procedure.
You can add an optical drive to an empty lower
optical bay.
Before adding a new optical drive,
IMPORTANT:
make sure that it is compatible with the Microsoft
®
Windows XP operating system. Also, make sure you
have the correct software and drivers for the optical
drive to work with the operating system.
A
B
You can replace the (primary) hard disk drive or install
a second hard disk drive in the PC.
C
D
E
F
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