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Chapter 15: Upgrading Your Notebook
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Changing drives
Your notebook’s modular bay supports different bay modules, such as a CD,
CD-RW, DVD, or combination DVD/CD-RW drive, a second hard drive, a
diskette drive, or a secondary battery.
To change bay modules:
1
If you are removing a CD, CD-RW, DVD, combination DVD/CD-RW or
diskette drive, make sure that the drive is empty.
2
Click the remove hardware icon in the taskbar, the drive you are
removing, then click Stop .
-OR-
Turn off your notebook (do not place it in Standby or Hibernate mode).
Important If the remove hardware icon does not appear on the
taskbar, click the show hidden icons
button.
Modular bay
latch
Modular bay
latch
Modular bay