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Use this guide to replace a broken optical drive.
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Remove the following ten screws:
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Three 14.4 mm Phillips #00 screws
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Three 3.5 mm Phillips #00 screws
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Four 3.5 mm shouldered Phillips #00 screws
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Use your fingers to pry the lower case away from the body of the MacBook near the vent.
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Remove the lower case.
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Use the edge of a spudger to pry the battery connector upwards from its socket on the logic board.
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Bend the battery cable slightly away from its socket on the logic board so it does not accidentally connect itself while you work.
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Use the flat end of a spudger to pry the AirPort/Bluetooth ribbon cable connector up from its socket on the logic board.
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Carefully pull the camera cable out of its socket on the logic board.
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Carefully move the AirPort/Bluetooth ribbon cable out of the way as you peel the camera cable off the adhesive securing it to the subwoofer and the AirPort/Bluetooth bracket.
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De-route the camera cable out from under the retaining finger molded into the AirPort/Bluetooth bracket.
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Use the tip of a spudger to pry the antenna connector closest to the logic board up from its socket on the AirPort/Bluetooth board.
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De-route the antenna cable from under the finger molded into the AirPort/Bluetooth bracket.
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Use a Phillips #00 screwdriver to remove the following five screws:
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Two 10.3 mm screws
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Two 3.1 mm screws
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One 5 mm screw
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Pull the AirPort/Bluetooth assembly and the Subwoofer upward near the center of the side of the optical drive until they clear each other.
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Move the AirPort/Bluetooth assembly and the subwoofer away from the top of the optical drive.
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Pull the right speaker/subwoofer cable out from under the retaining finger near the side of the optical drive.
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Pull the right speaker/subwoofer cable upward to disconnect it from the logic board.
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Use the flat end of a spudger to pry the hard drive cable connector up from its socket on the logic board.
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Bend the hard drive cable away from the optical drive.
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Use the flat end of a spudger to pry the optical drive connector up from its socket on the logic board.
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Remove the three 2.7 mm Phillips screws securing the optical drive to the upper case.
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Pull the optical drive upward from its edge closest to the display and remove it from the upper case.
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Pull the optical drive cable away from the optical drive.
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Remove the two black Phillips #0 screws securing the small metal mounting bracket. Transfer this bracket to your new optical drive or hard drive enclosure.
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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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Wow thanks.
I finally successfully installed caddy for extra hdd. Thanks ALLAH. and thank you guys.
I actually swapped my internal hdd with an ssd. And put hdd into caddy. And replaced caddy with this dvd drive.
After installing I realized I shouldn’t move my internal hdd to caddy. I could just put ssd into caddy. And make that my startup disk.
Anyways. It was a great experience with removing HDD and DVD Drive.
I would NOT use the SSD in the caddy and have that be your startup disk. The optical drive uses PATA instead of SATA and is older transfer speed.
