Manual

Step 1: Fully charge the battery ........................................................................ 55
Step 2: Disable Hibernation and Standby ......................................................... 56
Step 3: Discharge the battery ............................................................................ 56
Step 4: Fully recharge the battery ..................................................................... 57
Step 5: Reenable Hibernation and Standby ...................................................... 57
Conserving battery power .................................................................................................. 57
Storing a battery ................................................................................................................ 57
Disposing of a used battery ............................................................................................... 58
Replacing the battery ......................................................................................................... 58
Testing an AC adapter ....................................................................................................................... 59
Shutting down the computer ............................................................................................................... 59
6 Drives
Identifying installed drives .................................................................................................................. 61
Handling drives ................................................................................................................................... 61
Improving hard drive performance ..................................................................................................... 63
Using Disk Defragmenter ................................................................................................... 63
Using Disk Cleanup ........................................................................................................... 63
Using HP 3D DriveGuard ................................................................................................................... 64
Identifying HP 3D DriveGuard status ................................................................................. 64
Using HP 3D DriveGuard software .................................................................................... 64
Replacing a hard drive ....................................................................................................................... 66
7 External devices
Using a USB device ........................................................................................................................... 70
Connecting a USB device .................................................................................................. 70
Stopping and removing a USB device ............................................................................... 71
Using USB legacy support ................................................................................................. 71
Using external drives .......................................................................................................................... 72
Using optional external devices ......................................................................................... 72
Using an optional external optical drive .............................................................................................. 73
Inserting an optical disc (CD or DVD) ................................................................................ 73
Removing an optical disc (CD or DVD) ............................................................................. 73
When the disc tray opens .................................................................................. 74
When the disc tray does not open ..................................................................... 74
8 External media cards
Using Digital Media Slot cards .......................................................................................................... 76
Inserting a digital card ........................................................................................................ 76
Stopping and removing a digital card ................................................................................ 77
9 Memory modules
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