Grab a hold of the disk drive and carefully pull it away from the computer.

Continue to slide the disk drive out of the laptop until fully removed.

Due to the removal of the battery, no power is available to open the disk drive through the use of the eject button.

Make sure to pull out the disk drive at a 90 degree angle as demonstrated. Do not attempt to wiggle the drive out of the laptop.

There will be resistance when removing the drive. Mishandling may cause broken wires, which could make your disk drive inoperative.