Chapter 6

Installing and Removing Tower Drives

This chapter describes how to install and remove optional drives in your tower computer.

If you have this manual online only, be sure to print out this chapter before performing any of the steps it describes.

You can use these instructions to install a variety of devices, including hard disk drives, diskette drives, tape drives, CD-ROM drives, PCMCIA card readers, optical drives, or other mass storage devices.

Note

This chapter describes installing and removing drives in the tower computer; if you have a slimline computer, see Chapter 5.

Although your drive may look different from the ones illustrated here, you should be able to install it the same way.

Follow the appropriate instructions in this chapter to do the following:

Set the IDE device jumpers

Install a drive in the front internal drive bay

Remove a drive from the front internal drive bay

Install a drive in an externally accessible drive bay

Remove a drive from an externally accessible drive bay

Installing and Removing Tower Drives

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