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Adding a Second Hard Drive

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Upgrading and Replacing PC Hardware Adding a Second Hard Drive WARNING For your safety, disconnect the power cord and all external cables. You can add a second hard drive in the drive tray provided. To do this: 1 Switch off the PC, disconnect the power cord and remove the PC's side panel (refer to "Removing and Replacing the Side Panel" on page 12). 2 Press the tab on the hard drive/floppy drive tray and pull the tray out part of the way. Press here and pull tray outwards 3 Disconnect all cables at the back of the floppy drive and hard drive. 4 Remove the drive tray from the PC. Note Due to cable restrictions only the hard drive installed in the upper tray can be used as the master. If you want to retain the original drive as master you must remove it from the lower tray, install it in the upper tray and then install the second hard drive in the lower tray. 5 Slide in the new hard drive in the position shown and fasten the three screws to secure it in position in the drive tray. Fasten two screws here and one on the other side of drive tray 6 Attach all data and power connectors. Assuming you want to use the original hard drive to boot your PC from, attach the end connector (marked MASTER) to this drive and the middle connector (marked SLAVE) to the new drive. 7 Replace the drive tray in the PC, ensuring that it is firmly and correctly in place. 8 Verify the new configuration by checking the main menu of the BIOS setup. To access the menu, press F8 when the HP logo appears during startup, then select Enter Setup. Note If you want to boot on the new hard drive, ensure that you have installed all the required operating system and HP drivers on the newly installed drive. To reinstall operating system and HP drivers, use the Recovery CD-ROMs provided with the PC. In addition, you can find the most up-to-date versions of HP drivers on HP's Web site at: www.hp.com/go/vectrasupport. 9 Replace the PC's side panel (refer to "Removing and Replacing the Side Panel" on page 12). 10 Reconnect the power cord. 21

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Upgrading and Replacing PC Hardware
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Adding a Second Hard Drive
WARNING
For your safety, disconnect the power cord and all external cables.
You can add a second hard drive in the drive tray provided. To do this:
1
Switch off the PC, disconnect the power cord and remove the PC’s side panel (refer to “Removing and
Replacing the Side Panel” on page 12).
2
Press the tab on the hard drive/floppy drive tray and pull the tray out part of the way.
3
Disconnect all cables at the back of the floppy drive and hard drive.
4
Remove the drive tray from the PC.
Note
Due to cable restrictions only the hard drive installed in the upper tray can be used as the master. If you want to retain the original drive
as master you must remove it from the lower tray, install it in the upper tray and then install the second hard drive in the lower tray.
5
Slide in the new hard drive in the position shown and fasten the three screws to secure it in position
in the drive tray.
6
Attach all data and power connectors. Assuming you want to use the original hard drive to boot your
PC from, attach the end connector (marked MASTER) to this drive and the middle connector (marked
SLAVE) to the new drive.
7
Replace the drive tray in the PC, ensuring that it is firmly and correctly in place.
8
Verify the new configuration by checking the main menu of the BIOS setup. To access the menu, press
F8
when the
HP logo
appears during startup, then select
Enter Setup
.
Note
If you want to boot on the new hard drive, ensure that you have installed all the required operating system and HP drivers on the newly
installed drive. To reinstall operating system and HP drivers, use the Recovery CD-ROMs provided with the PC. In addition, you can
find the most up-to-date versions of HP drivers on HP’s Web site at:
www.hp.com/go/vectrasupport
.
9
Replace the PC’s side panel (refer to “Removing and Replacing the Side Panel” on page 12).
10
Reconnect the power cord.
Press here and pull tray outwards
Fasten two screws here and
one on the other side of drive
tray