Difficulty

Moderate

Steps

8

Time Required

                          15 minutes

Sections

3

  • Back Cover
  • 5 steps
  • Battery Disconnection
  • 1 step
  • SSD
  • 2 steps

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Introduction

What you need

Step 1

              Back Cover
  • Remove the eight 4 mm T5 Torx screws from the bottom cover.

Remove the eight 4 mm T5 Torx screws from the bottom cover.

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Step 2

  • Use a plastic opening tool to pry open the ‘XPS’ flap in the middle.

Use a plastic opening tool to pry open the ‘XPS’ flap in the middle.

Step 3

  • Remove the single Phillips screw hidden beneath the flap.

Remove the single Phillips screw hidden beneath the flap.

Step 4

  • Use opening picks or a plastic pry tool to pry open the case clips, beginning from the back edge.

Use opening picks or a plastic pry tool to pry open the case clips, beginning from the back edge.

Step 5

  • Remove the bottom cover.

Remove the bottom cover.

Step 6

              Battery Disconnection
  • Pull the battery cable connector towards the battery to disconnect it from its socket.
  • If the connector is stubborn, push a little at one side, then the other, to “walk” it out of its socket.
  • If you have trouble walking the connector out of the socket, use the point of a spudger to gently push on the connector indent to slide the connector out.
  • Do not pull up.
  • Open the display and press the power button for five seconds to drain any remaining charge from the system.

Pull the battery cable connector towards the battery to disconnect it from its socket.

If the connector is stubborn, push a little at one side, then the other, to “walk” it out of its socket.

If you have trouble walking the connector out of the socket, use the point of a spudger to gently push on the connector indent to slide the connector out.

Do not pull up.

Open the display and press the power button for five seconds to drain any remaining charge from the system.

Step 7

              SSD
  • Remove the black, 4 mm Phillips screw securing the SSD.

Remove the black, 4 mm Phillips screw securing the SSD.

Step 8

  • Slide the SSD out of its socket.
  • Try not to lift the SSD any more than necessary.
  • During reassembly, make sure the slot in the SSD lines up with the slot in its socket. Do not touch the gold-colored contacts with your fingers.

Slide the SSD out of its socket.

Try not to lift the SSD any more than necessary.

During reassembly, make sure the slot in the SSD lines up with the slot in its socket. Do not touch the gold-colored contacts with your fingers.

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

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burin.int - Jul 24, 2018

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I’m kinda new on pc upgrading. So once I install a new m.2 I’ll need to install a new window 10 right

Anirban Mukherjee - May 12, 2019

Yes, you have to install windows again. or you can clone your existing ssd onto the new one using some adapters easily found online

kamathmanoj - Jul 28, 2018

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You will have to reinstall unless you are buying a samsung m.2 which comes with a disk duplicator utility. The xps 13 cames with a samsung early life evo disk (128GB) and transferring from 1 evo to another is very easy with the app. I believe its the same with every disk though I havent tried the latter.

Justin Vander Ziel - Sep 9, 2021

Dell has some nice recovery tools:

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us…

I downloaded a recovery image to use from a USB drive. I am using it to reinstall the Windows that came with the PC. You don’t have to be the original owner but you do need to have the Dell asset number usually stored in the bios

Kelly Trinh - Jul 6, 2019

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https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/upgra…

helpful resource