Removing And Replacing Drives; Removing An Optical Drive - HP CQ5110F - Presario - 3 GB RAM Upgrade And Service Manual

Removing and Replacing Drives

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Upgrading and Servicing Guide
Your computer has several drives that you can replace or upgrade. See "Locating
Components Inside the Computer" on page 7 for the drive types and locations.
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: Before you remove the hard disk drive, back up your personal files
on the hard disk drive to an external storage device, such as a CD. Failure to
do so will result in data loss. After replacing the hard disk drive, you must run
System Recovery using the recovery discs to load the factory-installed files. For
details about the recovery procedure, see the user documentation that came
with your computer.
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
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 computer to remove the side and front panels.
See "Opening and Closing the Computer" on page 1.
2 Release the drive by pulling the latch out, away from the chassis, and then pulling the
drive partway out of the front of the chassis. (The latch drive brackets secure the drives
in their respective positions in the chassis.)