Step 2: Disable Hibernation and Sleep
.............................................................
70
Step 3: Discharge the battery
............................................................................
70
Step 4: Fully recharge the battery
.....................................................................
71
Step 5: Reenable Hibernation and Sleep
..........................................................
71
Conserving battery power
..................................................................................................
71
Storing a battery
................................................................................................................
72
Disposing of a used battery
...............................................................................................
72
Replacing the battery
.........................................................................................................
72
Testing an AC adapter
.......................................................................................................................
73
Shutting down the computer
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73
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Drives
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75
Identifying installed drives
..................................................................................................................
75
Handling drives
...................................................................................................................................
75
Improving hard drive performance
.....................................................................................................
77
Using Disk Defragmenter
...................................................................................................
77
Using Disk Cleanup
...........................................................................................................
77
Using external drives
..........................................................................................................................
78
Using optional external devices
.........................................................................................
78
Replacing the hard drive
....................................................................................................................
79
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External devices
............................................................................................................................................
83
Using a USB device
...........................................................................................................................
83
Connecting a USB device
..................................................................................................
83
Removing a USB device
....................................................................................................
83
Using USB legacy support
.................................................................................................
84
Using external drives
..........................................................................................................................
85
Using optional external devices
.........................................................................................
85
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External media cards
....................................................................................................................................
86
Using Media Card Reader cards
........................................................................................................
86
Inserting a digital card
........................................................................................................
86
Removing a digital card
.....................................................................................................
87
Using ExpressCards (select models only)
..........................................................................................
88
Configuring an ExpressCard
..............................................................................................
88
Inserting an ExpressCard
..................................................................................................
88
Removing an ExpressCard
................................................................................................
89
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Memory modules
..........................................................................................................................................
91
Adding or replacing a memory module in the expansion memory module slot
..................................
92
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