Adding Components

The hard drive is used to store information permanently inside your computer.

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You need a screw and a data (ribbon) cable to install an optional hard drive. The empty bracket for the optional hard drive already exists in your computer chassis.

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The existing hard drive data cable has a color pull-tab to help you identify the cable.

You must replace the existing data cable for the optional hard drive to function properly.

Adding the Optional Hard Drive

1.Complete the “Accessing Internal Computer Components” procedure before adding an optional hard drive. The optional hard drive shown may differ slightly from your particular optional hard drive.

Caution: Dropping the hard drive may cause the read/write heads to dig into the media, resulting in damage to the heads and the media, and loss of data.

2.Remove the screw that secures the empty hard drive bracket to the chassis included within the system. Insert the second hard drive, and line up the two pins on the bracket with the holes on the hard drive. Snap the optional hard drive in place

inside the optional hard drive bracket.

3.Insert the screw from your purchased kit to secure the hard drive to the bracket.

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Compaq 233789-371 manual Adding Components, Adding the Optional Hard Drive