Installing and Removing Drives
When installing additional drives, follow these guidelines:
●The primary Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive must be connected to the dark blue primary SATA connector on the system board labeled SATA0.
●Connect a SATA optical drive to the white SATA connector on the system board labeled SATA1.
●Connect additional SATA hard drives to the next available (unpopulated) SATA connector on the system board in the following order: SATA0, SATA1, SATA5, SATA4.
●Always populate the dark blue SATA0 and white SATA1 connectors before the light blue SATA4 and orange SATA5 connectors.
●Connect a diskette drive to the connector labeled FLOPPY.
●Connect a media card reader to the USB connector labeled MEDIA.
●The system does not support Parallel ATA (PATA) optical drives or PATA hard drives.
●You must install guide screws to ensure the drive will line up correctly in the drive cage and lock in place. HP has provided extra guide screws for the external drive bays (four
Figure 2-19 Secondary Hard Drive 6-32 Guide Screws Location
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