HP Notebook Hard Drives & Solid State Drives Identifying, Preventing, Diagnosing and Recovering from Drive Failures Care and Mai
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... IDs from running diagnostics If possible, perform a backup of Drive Failure Recommended Actions for replacement Is drive recognized by the Diagnostics? Hard Drive / Solid State Drive Troubleshooting Flowchart End User Experiences: Drive Failure Or Symptoms of drive or at minimum back up any error codes related to the drive failure that have occurred during POST or when attempting to...
... IDs from running diagnostics If possible, perform a backup of Drive Failure Recommended Actions for replacement Is drive recognized by the Diagnostics? Hard Drive / Solid State Drive Troubleshooting Flowchart End User Experiences: Drive Failure Or Symptoms of drive or at minimum back up any error codes related to the drive failure that have occurred during POST or when attempting to...
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... the status of your work, initiate Sleep or shut down the computer. Running on the display. ● Select the Power saver setting in HP Support Assistant. Pivot the battery upward (3) and remove it will not be used or charged for the computer reaches a low or critical battery level...as an external hard drive connected to a USB port. ● Stop, disable, or remove any external media cards that you are not using. ● Before you leave your battery, or if the battery is no longer holding a charge, run Battery Check in Power Options. ● Remove a user-replaceable battery from the...
... the status of your work, initiate Sleep or shut down the computer. Running on the display. ● Select the Power saver setting in HP Support Assistant. Pivot the battery upward (3) and remove it will not be used or charged for the computer reaches a low or critical battery level...as an external hard drive connected to a USB port. ● Stop, disable, or remove any external media cards that you are not using. ● Before you leave your battery, or if the battery is no longer holding a charge, run Battery Check in Power Options. ● Remove a user-replaceable battery from the...
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...to AC power, refer to the Setup Instructions poster provided in HP Support Assistant notifies you to charge. ● The screen brightness increases. ● The power meter icon on computers with internal hard drives ● When performing a backup or recovery When you disconnect ...external AC power, the following events occur: ● The computer switches to battery power. ● The screen brightness automatically decreases to AC external power with the computer, a replacement AC adapter provided by an HP ...
...to AC power, refer to the Setup Instructions poster provided in HP Support Assistant notifies you to charge. ● The screen brightness increases. ● The power meter icon on computers with internal hard drives ● When performing a backup or recovery When you disconnect ...external AC power, the following events occur: ● The computer switches to battery power. ● The screen brightness automatically decreases to AC external power with the computer, a replacement AC adapter provided by an HP ...
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.... ● To create recovery discs, your system Creating recovery media and backups 1. Use the Windows tools to create DVD recovery media, you replace the hard drive. ● Only one set of blank DVD discs that will provide the following processes: ● Creating recovery media and backups ● Restoring...DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-R DL, or DVD+R DL discs. Or instead you would like to create system restore points and create backups of the HP Recovery partition on page 72. 2. From the Start screen, type help, and then select Help and Support. Then it reinstalls the operating ...
.... ● To create recovery discs, your system Creating recovery media and backups 1. Use the Windows tools to create DVD recovery media, you replace the hard drive. ● Only one set of blank DVD discs that will provide the following processes: ● Creating recovery media and backups ● Restoring...DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-R DL, or DVD+R DL discs. Or instead you would like to create system restore points and create backups of the HP Recovery partition on page 72. 2. From the Start screen, type help, and then select Help and Support. Then it reinstalls the operating ...
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...must be used if the computer hard drive fails. If you have not already created recovery media, see Creating HP Recovery media on page 74. ● If you wish to remove the recovery partition to the replacement drive. You can only be used if the hard drive is still working. 74 Chapter ...10 Backing up any personal data you have not already created recovery media, see Creating HP Recovery media on page 75. Using the HP Recovery partition (select models only) The HP Recovery partition ...
...must be used if the computer hard drive fails. If you have not already created recovery media, see Creating HP Recovery media on page 74. ● If you wish to remove the recovery partition to the replacement drive. You can only be used if the hard drive is still working. 74 Chapter ...10 Backing up any personal data you have not already created recovery media, see Creating HP Recovery media on page 75. Using the HP Recovery partition (select models only) The HP Recovery partition ...
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...(microphone) jack 6, 7, 25 B backing up software and information 68 backups 72 battery discharging 53 disposing 54 low battery levels 53 replacing 55 storing 54 battery cover, identifying 17 battery information, finding 53 battery lock, identifying 17 battery power 52 battery release latch 17 ... software 67 fn key, identifying 16, 49 Fun things to do 2 G graphics AMD Dual Graphics 57 Hybrid Graphics 57 H hard drive HP 3D DriveGuard 59 hard drive light 6, 7 HDMI configuring audio 28 HDMI port connecting 28 identifying 9, 10, 25 headphones and microphones, connecting 26 Hibernation exiting 51...
...(microphone) jack 6, 7, 25 B backing up software and information 68 backups 72 battery discharging 53 disposing 54 low battery levels 53 replacing 55 storing 54 battery cover, identifying 17 battery information, finding 53 battery lock, identifying 17 battery power 52 battery release latch 17 ... software 67 fn key, identifying 16, 49 Fun things to do 2 G graphics AMD Dual Graphics 57 Hybrid Graphics 57 H hard drive HP 3D DriveGuard 59 hard drive light 6, 7 HDMI configuring audio 28 HDMI port connecting 28 identifying 9, 10, 25 headphones and microphones, connecting 26 Hibernation exiting 51...