HP XZ046UA manual 8

Finding battery information in Help and Support ...............................................................	63
Using Battery Check ..........................................................................................................	64
Inserting or removing the battery .......................................................................................	64
Charging a battery .............................................................................................................	66
Maximizing battery discharge time ....................................................................................	66
Managing low battery levels ..............................................................................................	66
Identifying low battery levels .............................................................................	66
Resolving a low battery level .............................................................................	67
Resolving a low battery level when external power is available .......	67
Resolving a low battery level when a charged battery is
available ...........................................................................................	67
Resolving a low battery level when no power source is
available ...........................................................................................	67
Resolving a low battery level when the computer cannot exit
Hibernation .......................................................................................	67
Calibrating a battery ...........................................................................................................	67
Step 1: Fully charge the battery ........................................................................	67
Step 2: Disable Hibernation and Sleep .............................................................	68
Step 3: Discharge the battery ............................................................................	68
Step 4: Fully recharge the battery .....................................................................	69
Step 5: Reenable Hibernation and Sleep ..........................................................	69
Conserving battery power ..................................................................................................	69
Storing a battery ................................................................................................................	69
Disposing of a used battery ...............................................................................................	70
Replacing the battery .........................................................................................................	70
Shutting down the computer ...............................................................................................................	70
6 Drives .............................................................................................................................................................	72
Handling drives ...................................................................................................................................	72
Using external drives ..........................................................................................................................	73
Improving hard drive performance .....................................................................................................	73
Using Disk Defragmenter ...................................................................................................	73
Using Disk Cleanup ...........................................................................................................	74
Replacing the hard drive ....................................................................................................................	74
7 External devices and external media cards ...............................................................................................	78
Using a USB device ...........................................................................................................................	78
Connecting a USB device ..................................................................................................	78
Removing a USB device ....................................................................................................	79
Using Digital Media Slot cards ...........................................................................................................	79
Inserting a digital card ........................................................................................................	79
Removing a digital card .....................................................................................................	81

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