Difficulty

Moderate

Steps

6

Time Required

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Sections

2

  • Battery
  • 1 step
  • Hard Drive
  • 5 steps

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What you need

Step 1

              Remove battery
  • Flip the laptop over. With the battery side facing you, push the latch to the right.
  • Lift the battery. You’re done!

Flip the laptop over. With the battery side facing you, push the latch to the right.

Lift the battery. You’re done!

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Step 2

              Remove disc drive
  • Remove the single tiny Philips screw securing the disc drive.
  • Slide the disc drive out.

Remove the single tiny Philips screw securing the disc drive.

Slide the disc drive out.

Step 3

              Remove bottom screws
  • Remove the nine long Philips screws securing the bottom cover.
  • Remove the three small Philips screws securing the bottom cover.

Remove the nine long Philips screws securing the bottom cover.

Remove the three small Philips screws securing the bottom cover.

Step 4

              Remove keyboard & palmrest screws
  • Flip the laptop right-side-up and open it.
  • Use a spudger on each of the five keyboard clips.
  • Lift the keyboard slowly, and then remove the cable from the connector.
  • Remove the five medium-length Philips screws.

Flip the laptop right-side-up and open it.

Use a spudger on each of the five keyboard clips.

Lift the keyboard slowly, and then remove the cable from the connector.

Remove the five medium-length Philips screws.

Step 5

              Remove HDD caddy
  • Remove the two screws securing the HDD caddy to the palmrest.
  • Remove the ZIF cable from the connector.
  • Lift the caddy.

Remove the two screws securing the HDD caddy to the palmrest.

Remove the ZIF cable from the connector.

Lift the caddy.

Step 6

              Remove HDD
  • Remove the four screws securing the HDD to the caddy.
  • Remove the SATA-to-ZIF connector from the hard drive.
  • You’re done!

Remove the four screws securing the HDD to the caddy.

Remove the SATA-to-ZIF connector from the hard drive.

You’re done!

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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mt_braun - Mar 29, 2021

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Good guide except step 2 would be better if it said “remove optical drive” or “remove CD/DVD drive”.

Sirius K - Aug 8, 2021

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I was getting suspicious wether or not my laptop wardrobe replacement caused keyboard function loses (first F3, Caps lock, Left shift, Tab, second comes X key and now W key). Nearly all the keys other than the W key is rarely used and the method of hard drive removal shown in this web seems to support that idea too

tom - Apr 23, 2022

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