Hitachi GD8000 User Guide - Page 24

GD8000 User Guide Getting Familiar With Your Computer Hard Disk Drive Heater The hard disk drive heater warms the HDD before spinning up in temperatures below 5°C, the minimum safe operating temperature for the HDD. The heater is integrated and operates as needed when the computer is on. If the temperature is below 5°C when booting or resuming you will see the message "Warming internal hard drive. Please wait...". The unit will continue booting when it detects the HDD is warm enough to operate safely. NOTE If you are using the computer in a cold temperature environment and the battery level is too low for the heater to operate, you will see the error message "Battery too low to warm the hard drive. Shutting down..." and the computer will shut down. Apply external power and reboot. The Media Bay Depending on your configuration, your computer may have an optional DVD multi-drive (DVD-RAM/DVD-ROM/DVD-RW/ CD-R/CD-ROM/CD-RW) or media bay battery. The multi-drive allows you to read data from DVDs and CDs, including audio or video CDs, and enables you to burn your data onto a CD or DVD recordable disc. Please refer to the recording software online help for more information. If you have the media bay battery, it extends your unplugged runtime. To Change Swappable Media Bay Device 1. Make sure the computer is not accessing the media bay drive. 2. Open the media bay door cover. 3. Double-click the Safely Remove Hardware icon on the Windows tray taskbar. 4. Select the Media Bay device, then select Stop. 5. Wait for the "safe to remove hardware" message, then click OK. 6. Turn your computer over so you are looking at the bottom. 7. If installed, remove the screw in the media bay lock. 8. Slide the media bay lock toward the back of the computer and hold. 9. While holding the media lock in the unlocked position, slide the media bay release toward the outside of the computer. The media bay should come part way out of the computer. 10.Grasp the media bay device by the edges and pull straight out until it is clear from the slot. 11. Re-insert the next media bay device by firmly pushing it back into the slot until it clicks into place. CAUTION Do not remove or change any hardware while your computer is hibernating or in a Sleep/Standby state. Your notebook identifies the drive with the letter following the hard drive and/or recovery partition letter. If your hard drive is C, then the media bay will be E if you have a recovery partition. It will be D if you do not have a recovery partition. To Insert a Disk 1. Open the media bay door cover. 2. Insert the disk into the media bay slot. To Remove a DVD or CD 1. Make sure the computer is not accessing the DVD drive. 2. Press the eject button. The disk will automatically eject. 3. Pick up the disk by the edges and remove it from the slot. Multi Drive Eject Button Media Bay Screw and Lock Media Bay Release General Dynamics Itronix | 72-0137-003 CAUTION When the computer is reading from a DVD or CD, the Optical Disk Drive LED will flash on. Do not attempt to remove a disk while this light is active.