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 6-32 standard screws and four M3 metric screws), installed in the front of the chassis, under the front bezel. The 6-32 standard screws are required for a secondary hard drive. All other drives (except the primary hard drive) use M3 metric screws. The HP-supplied metric screws are black and the HP-supplied standard screws are silver. If you are replacing the primary hard drive, you must remove the four silver and blue 6-32 isolation mounting guide screws from the old hard drive and install them in the new hard drive.

Figure 2-19Secondary Hard Drive 6-32 Guide Screws Location

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