Removing And Replacing Drives; Removing An Optical Drive - HP Compaq Presario,Presario CQ5110F Supplementary Manual

Removing and Replacing Drives

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Upgrading and Servicing Guide
Your PC has several drives that you can replace or upgrade. See the preceding topic,
"Locating Components Inside the Computer" on page 7 for drive type and location.
The hard disk drive is either a Serial ATA (advanced technology attachment) drive, which
uses a narrow data cable, or a Parallel ATA drive, which uses a wide data cable.
Select models have a second hard disk drive.
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 documentation that came with your PC for details about the
recovery procedure.
You can add an optical drive into an empty lower optical drive bay.
IMPORTANT: Before adding a new optical drive, make sure that it is compatible with the
Microsoft Windows Vista™ operating system. Also, make sure you have the correct
software and drivers for the optical drive to work with the operating system.

Removing an Optical Drive

1 Complete the procedures to prepare the PC to remove the side panel and to remove
the front panel. See "Opening and Closing the PC" on page 1.
2 Release the drive by pulling the latch out away from the chassis and then pulling the
drive part way out of the front of the chassis. (The latch drive brackets secure the
drives in their respective positions in the chassis.)