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Removal and replacement procedures 41
CAUTION: To prevent improper cooling and thermal damage, do not operate the server unless all bays
are populated with either a component or a blank.
1. Determine the status of the hard drive from the hot-plug hard drive LEDs ("Hot-plug SCSI hard drive
LEDs" on page 82, "SATA or SAS hard drive LEDs" on page 84).
2. Back up all server data on the hard drive to be removed.
3. Remove the hard drive.
To replace the component, reverse the removal procedure.
Removing a hot-plug SAS hard drive
CAUTION: Always power down the server if the boot partition resides on the drive you are replacing or if
you are replacing the only drive in the server.
CAUTION: To prevent improper cooling and thermal damage, do not operate the server unless all bays
are populated with either a component or a blank.
1. Determine the status of the hard drive from the hot-plug hard drive LEDs ("SAS and SATA hard drive
LED combinations" on page 84).
2. Back up all server data on the hard drive to be removed.