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If the hard drive has broken or if you are planning on putting in an SSD hard drive, this guide will show you how.
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Flip the laptop upside down. Rotate it so the battery faces you.
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Place the pointed end of a spudger into the battery lock. Slide the battery lock to the left using the spudger. A "click" sound will accompany the release of the battery.
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Pull the battery towards you to remove it from the laptop.
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Remove all eighteen 8 mm screws with a Phillips #0 screwdriver.
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Carefully pry apart the clips holding the keyboard in place by moving a metal spudger along the seam.
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Carefully flip up the white hinge. Detach the three ZIF ribbons connected to the motherboard.
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Remove the panel with the keyboard and the touchpad.
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Locate the hard drive in the metal casing.
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Remove these two 4 mm Phillips #1 screws.
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Locate this ZIF ribbon and carefully flip the white top hinge up and bend the ribbon over to the right side.
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Slide the hard drive to the right and gently lift it off of the laptop.
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There is one screw on each side of the metal hard drive casing you remove.
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Slide the hard drive out of the metal casing.
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
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Many thanks to the author of this guide, it really helped me out
These are excellent clear instructions, well done and thank you
Great directions. With visual ades too...nice.
Thanks
Thank you for the clear instructions, this is an excellent guide.
Very helpful guide. Thanks for that! Only thing missing was a warning about where the plastic clips were around the body to make it easier to pop those without breaking the plastic tabs on some of them. Even that isn’t all that important really.