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Upgrading the hard/solid state disk drive – Eurocom Armadillo User Manual

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Upgrading The Computer

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Upgrading the Hard/Solid State Disk Drive

The hard disk drive (or solid state drive) can be taken out to accommodate other 2.5"
serial (SATA) hard disk/solid state drives with a height of 7mm (h) (see

“Storage”

on page D - 2

). Follow your operating system’s installation instructions, and install

all necessary drivers and utilities (see

“Driver Installation” on page 4 - 2

), when

setting up a new hard disk/solid state drive.

See the following pages for the appropriate information:

• See

“Removing the HDD” on page 6 - 9

.

• See

“Removing the SSD From the Component Bay” on page 6 - 10

HDD System

Warning

New HDD’s are blank. Be-
fore you begin make sure:
You have backed up any
data you want to keep from
your old HDD.
You have all the discs re-
quired to install your oper-
ating system and
programs.
If you have access to the in-
ternet, download the latest
application and hardware
driver updates for the oper-
ating system you plan to in-
stall. Copy these to a
removable medium.