Calibrating a battery ........................................................................................................... 80
Conserving battery power .................................................................................................. 83
Storing a battery ................................................................................................................ 84
Replacing the battery ......................................................................................................... 84
Testing an AC adapter ....................................................................................................................... 85
Shutting down the computer ............................................................................................................... 85
6 Drives ............................................................................................................................................................. 87
Identifying installed drives .................................................................................................................. 87
Handling drives ................................................................................................................................... 87
Using Disk Defragmenter ................................................................................................... 89
Using Disk Cleanup ........................................................................................................... 89
Using HP 3D DriveGuard ................................................................................................................... 90
Using external drives .......................................................................................................................... 92
Replacing the hard drive .................................................................................................................... 93
7 External devices .......................................................................................................................................... 107
Using a USB device ......................................................................................................................... 107
Connecting a USB device ................................................................................................ 107
Removing a USB device .................................................................................................. 107
Using USB legacy support ............................................................................................... 108
Using an eSATA device ................................................................................................................... 109
Removing an eSATA device ............................................................................................ 109
Using external drives ........................................................................................................................ 111
8 External media cards .................................................................................................................................. 112
Inserting a digital card ...................................................................................................... 112
Removing a digital card ................................................................................................... 113
Hibernation ....................................................................................... 80
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