Maintenance and Service Guide
Table Of Contents
- Product features
- Illustrated parts catalog
- Routine care, SATA drive guidelines, and disassembly preparation
- Removal and replacement procedures
- Computer Setup (F10) Utility
- Using HP PC Hardware Diagnostics
- Troubleshooting without diagnostics
- Safety and comfort
- Before you call for technical support
- Helpful hints
- Solving general problems
- Solving power problems
- Solving hard drive problems
- Solving audio problems
- Solving printer problems
- Solving keyboard and mouse problems
- Solving hardware installation problems
- Solving network problems
- Solving memory problems
- Solving USB flash drive problems
- Solving Internet access problems
- Solving software problems
- Backing up, restoring, and recovering
- POST error messages and diagnostic front panel LEDs and audible codes
- Password security and resetting CMOS
- Power cord set requirements
- Statement of memory volatility
- Specifications
- Index
Hard drive
IMPORTANT: Hard drives are available only in models without discrete graphics.
For a list of available hard drives, see Illustrated parts catalog on page 5.
To locate the hard drive on the system board, see Internal components on page 21.
1. Prepare the computer for disassembly (see Preparing to disassemble the computer on page 16).
2. Remove the base unit rear and front access panels (see Base unit access covers on page 17).
3. Pull the release lever at the front of the drive outward (1).
4. Slide the drive back until it stops and lift it out of the drive bay (2).
5. Disconnect the cable from the rear of the hard drive (3).
6. Remove the four mounting screws from the sides of the hard drive that was removed.
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