HP G72-100 - Notebook PC - Drives Management and Usage; Drive Handling and Optical Discs; Hard Drive Performance and Replacement

Calibrating a battery ........................................................................................................... 63
Step 1: Fully charge the battery ........................................................................ 63
Step 2: Disable Hibernation and Sleep ............................................................. 64
Step 3: Discharge the battery ............................................................................ 65
Step 4: Fully recharge the battery ..................................................................... 65
Step 5: Reenable Hibernation and Sleep .......................................................... 66
Conserving battery power .................................................................................................. 66
Storing a battery ................................................................................................................ 66
Disposing of a used battery ............................................................................................... 67
Replacing the battery ......................................................................................................... 67
Shutting down the computer ............................................................................................................... 68
6 Drives
Handling drives ................................................................................................................................... 69
Optical drive ....................................................................................................................................... 70
Identifying the installed optical drive .................................................................................. 70
Using optical discs ............................................................................................................. 71
Selecting the right disc (CDs, DVDs, and BDs) ................................................................. 72
CD-R discs ........................................................................................................ 72
CD-RW discs ..................................................................................................... 72
DVD±R discs ..................................................................................................... 72
DVD±RW discs ................................................................................................. 72
LightScribe DVD+R discs .................................................................................. 73
Blu-ray Disc (BD) .............................................................................................. 73
Playing a CD, DVD, or BD ................................................................................................. 73
Configuring AutoPlay ......................................................................................................... 75
Changing DVD region settings .......................................................................................... 75
Observing the copyright warning ....................................................................................... 76
Copying a CD, DVD, or BD ................................................................................................ 76
Creating (burning) a CD or DVD ........................................................................................ 77
Removing a CD, DVD, or BD ............................................................................................. 78
Using external drives .......................................................................................................................... 78
Improving hard drive performance ..................................................................................................... 80
Using Disk Defragmenter ................................................................................................... 80
Using Disk Cleanup ........................................................................................................... 80
Replacing the hard drive .................................................................................................................... 81
7 External devices and external media cards
Using a USB device ........................................................................................................................... 85
Connecting a USB device .................................................................................................. 85
Removing a USB device .................................................................................................... 86
Using Digital Media Slot cards ........................................................................................................... 87
Inserting a digital card ........................................................................................................ 87
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