Step 2: Disable Hibernation and Sleep ............................................................. 70
Step 3: Discharge the battery ............................................................................ 70
Step 4: Fully recharge the battery ..................................................................... 71
Step 5: Reenable Hibernation and Sleep .......................................................... 71
Conserving battery power .................................................................................................. 71
Storing a battery ................................................................................................................ 72
Disposing of a used battery ............................................................................................... 72
Replacing the battery ......................................................................................................... 72
Testing an AC adapter ....................................................................................................................... 73
Shutting down the computer ............................................................................................................... 73
6 Drives ............................................................................................................................................................. 75
Identifying installed drives .................................................................................................................. 75
Handling drives ................................................................................................................................... 75
Improving hard drive performance ..................................................................................................... 77
Using Disk Defragmenter ................................................................................................... 77
Using Disk Cleanup ........................................................................................................... 77
Using external drives .......................................................................................................................... 78
Using optional external devices ......................................................................................... 78
Replacing the hard drive .................................................................................................................... 79
7 External devices ............................................................................................................................................ 83
Using a USB device ........................................................................................................................... 83
Connecting a USB device .................................................................................................. 83
Removing a USB device .................................................................................................... 83
Using USB legacy support ................................................................................................. 84
Using external drives .......................................................................................................................... 85
Using optional external devices ......................................................................................... 85
8 External media cards .................................................................................................................................... 86
Using Media Card Reader cards ........................................................................................................ 86
Inserting a digital card ........................................................................................................ 86
Removing a digital card ..................................................................................................... 87
Using ExpressCards (select models only) .......................................................................................... 88
Configuring an ExpressCard .............................................................................................. 88
Inserting an ExpressCard .................................................................................................. 88
Removing an ExpressCard ................................................................................................ 89
9 Memory modules .......................................................................................................................................... 91
Adding or replacing a memory module in the expansion memory module slot .................................. 92
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