Disassembly
Removing the Hard Disk Drive 2 - 7
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Removing the Hard Disk Drive
The hard disk drive can be taken out to accommodate other 2.5" serial (SATA) hard disk drives with a height of 7mm
(h). Follow your operating system’s installation instructions, and install all necessary drivers and utilities (as outlined in
Chapter 4 of the User’s Manual
) when setting up a new hard disk.
Hard Disk Disassembly Process
Figure 3
HDD Assembly
Removal
a. Remove the screws.
b. Remove the SD cover
and screws.
c. Remove the bottom
case.
3. SD Card Cover
16. Bottom Case
• 12 Screws
HDD System Warning
New HDD’s are blank. Be-
fore you begin make sure:
You have backed up any
data you want to keep from
your old HDD.
You have all the CD-ROMs
and FDDs required to install
your operating system and
programs.
If you have access to the in-
ternet, download the latest
application and hardware
driver updates for the operat-
ing system you plan to in-
stall. Copy these to a
removable medium.
1. Turn
off
the computer, remove the battery (
page 2 - 5
) and keyboard (
page 2 - 6
).
2. Remove screws
-
(
Figure 3a
).
3. Remove the SD card cover
and screws
-
(
Figure 3b
).
4. Carefully lift the bottom case
up in the direction of the arrow at point
-
and remove it (
Figure 3c
)
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