Chapter 4

Installing and Removing Drives

This chapter describes how to install and remove optional drives in your computer. You can use these instructions to install a variety of devices, including hard disk drives, a diskette drive, a tape drive, a CD-ROM drive, or an optical drive. Although your drive may look different from the ones illustrated here, you should be able to install it the same way.

Your computer can hold up to four mass storage devices. You can install one hard disk drive using the internal mounting bracket below the diskette drive. In the externally accessible bays, you can install a second diskette drive or hard disk drive, a tape drive, a CD-ROM drive, or an optical drive.

To install or remove a drive, first remove the computer’s cover as described in Chapter 3. Then remove any option cards to access the drive bracket. Once you have installed the drive, replace any option cards you removed. See Chapter 3 for instructions.

Follow the appropriate instructions in this chapter to install and remove drives:

Removing the diskette drive and mounting bracket

Installing a hard disk drive using the mounting bracket

Removing a hard disk drive from the mounting bracket

Installing a drive in one of the externally accessible drive bays

Removing a drive from one of the externally accessible drive bays

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