security machine, but never put the drive through a metal detector.
When traveling, do not place your notebook in overhead storage compartments where it could slide around. Do not drop your notebook or subject it to other mechanical shocks.
Protect your notebook, battery, and hard drive from environmental hazards such as dirt, dust, food, liquids, temperature extremes, and overexposure to sunlight.
When you move your notebook between environments with very different temperature and/or humidity ranges, condensation may form on or within your notebook. To avoid damaging your notebook, allow sufficient time for the moisture to evaporate before using your notebook.
NOTICE: When taking your notebook from
When you disconnect a cable, pull on its connector or on its strain relief loop, not on the cable itself. As you pull out the connector, keep it evenly aligned to avoid bending any connector pins. Also, before you connect a cable make sure both connectors are correctly oriented and aligned.
Before you clean your notebook, turn it off, unplug it from its power source, and remove the battery.
Handle components with care. Hold a component such as a memory module by its edges, not its pins.
CAUTION: When using your telephone equipment, basic safety precautions should always be followed to reduce the risk of fire, electric shock and injury to persons, including the following:
Do not use this product near water, for example, near a bathtub, washing bowl, kitchen sink or laundry tub, in a wet basement or near a swimming pool.
Avoid using a telephone (other than a cordless type) during an electrical storm. There may be a remote risk of electric shock from lightning.
Do not use the telephone to report a gas leak in the vicinity of the leak.
Use only the power cord indicated in this manual.
WARNING: Possible voiding of Warranty
•If the battery is not properly handled, there may be a risk of explosion; make sure you are using the same or equivalent battery.
•Please dispose the used battery according to the instructions given by the manufacturer.
•Please be aware that cracked, deeply scratched or other poor quality disk used in this drive may cause damage to the drive and data in the disk. Such discs may break at