Lay your iBook upside down on a flat surface. Use a coin to rotate the battery locking screw 90 degrees clockwise. Lift the battery out of the computer. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3678 Lay your iBook upside down on a flat surface. Use a coin to rotate the battery locking screw 90 degrees clockwise. Lift the battery out of the computer. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3678 Pull the keyboard release tabs toward you and lift up on the keyboard until it pops free. If the keyboard does not come free, use a small flathead screwdriver to turn the keyboard locking screw 180 degrees in either direction and try again. Flip the keyboard over, away from the screen, and rest it face-down on the trackpad area. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3679 Pull the keyboard release tabs toward you and lift up on the keyboard until it pops free. If the keyboard does not come free, use a small flathead screwdriver to turn the keyboard locking screw 180 degrees in either direction and try again. Flip the keyboard over, away from the screen, and rest it face-down on the trackpad area. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3679 Remove the four silver Phillips screws that secure the RAM shield. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3681 Pull the keyboard cable up from the logic board, holding the cable as close to the connector as possible. Make sure that you reconnect the keyboard cable before replacing the RAM shield. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3683 Use a spudger or small flathead screwdriver to remove the three rubber feet from the lower case. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3685 Remove the three newly-revealed Phillips screws. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3686 Use a spudger or small flathead screwdriver to pry up the three metal rings that housed the rubber bumpers. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3687 Remove the three hex screws using a T8 Torx screwdriver. The shorter screw is in the center of the computer. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3688 Remove the two Phillips screws on either sides of the battery contacts. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3689 Breathe deeply. Trying times are ahead, but we promise the lower case does come off. Push the thin rims of the lower case surrounding the battery compartment in, bending them past the tabs, and then lift up to free that corner of the lower case. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3690 There is a slot on the wall of the battery compartment that locks the lower case in place. Use a small flathead screwdriver to pry out the slot's lower rim and pull up on the lower case to free the slot from the tabs holding it. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3691 Run a spudger along the seam between the lower case and upper case on the front of the computer to free the tabs locking the lower case. Pull up on the lower case and continue to use the spudger as necessary until you hear three distinct clicks. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3692 Continue to run the spudger around the front right corner. There are two tabs on the port side of the computer, one near the front corner and one near the sound-out port. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3693 There are three tabs over the optical drive that must be released before the lower case can come off. Slide the spudger into the lower case above the optical drive and run it toward the back of the computer until you hear three distinct clicks. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3694 The front and sides of the lower case are now free. Turn the computer so that the back is facing you and pull the lower case up and toward you until the back tabs pop free. It may be helpful to jiggle the case up and down. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3695 Remove the small greasy springs with white plastic caps from either side of the battery contacts. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3696 Remove the following 4 screws from the bottom shield: Two 3 mm Phillips. Two 7.5 mm Phillips. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3698 Lift the bottom shield off. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3699 Remove the two Phillips screws securing the DC-In board, removing tape as necessary. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3702 Deroute the cable from around the optical drive, removing tape as necessary. Disconnect the DC-In cable from the logic board and angle the DC-In board out of its compartment. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3703 Deroute the cable from around the optical drive, removing tape as necessary. Disconnect the DC-In cable from the logic board and angle the DC-In board out of its compartment. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3703 Remove the two 3 mm Phillips screws inside the left edge of the battery tray. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3704 We recommend placing the computer on a soft cloth from this point on to prevent damaging the logic board. Turn over the computer and open it. Use the flat side of a flathead screwdriver to remove the small magnet covering a screw near the middle of the computer. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3705 Remove the following 7 screws from the edges of the keyboard area. Three 2 mm Phillips along the right edge. One 4.5 mm Phillips underneath where the magnet was. One 6 mm Phillips with a small head in the lower left corner. Two 6 mm Phillips with large heads, one in the upper left corner and one in the middle. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3729 Before you can yank the upper case off, you must disconnect the trackpad connector, the blue and white power cable, and speaker cable as described in the next steps. Be especially careful with these cables; never pull directly on the cables, but use a spudger to pry up the connector directly. Carefully lift the upper case slightly and move it toward the front of the computer to reveal the trackpad connector. Use a spudger or your finger to disconnect the trackpad connector hidden beneath the white plastic tab. After disconnecting the track pad connector, carefully rotate the upper case away from you and rest it against the display. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3706 The connectors at the ends of the following cables are attached very firmly to the sockets on the logic board. Pulling directly on the cable will either separate the cable from its connector or the socket from the logic board. Use the sharp end of a spudger to disconnect the speaker cable connector. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3707 Using the sharp end of a spudger, disconnect the connector for the blue and white power cables. Again, be careful to pry up only on the connector. The upper case is now free and can be removed from the computer. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3708 Remove the fifteen 3 mm Phillips screws securing the top shield to the computer. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3710 Lift the top shield up from the right side, minding the upper left corner, which may catch on the metal framework. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3711 Remove the metal hard drive retaining bracket from the computer. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3730 Remove the four Phillips screws securing the hard drive to the metal framework. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3713 Slightly lift the hard drive from the free end and pull the hard drive straight away from the connector. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3714 Remove the hard drive brackets from the left and right sides of the hard drive. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3715 Remove the two black T8 Torx screws from either side of the hard drive (four screws total). /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3716 Pull the plastic hard drive connector straight away from the hard drive. This is a bit tricky. Try rocking the connector gently while pulling with even pressure. If you bend the pins, do your best to straighten them, using the hard drive connector as a guide. Hard drive remains. If you are installing a new hard drive, we have an OS X install guide to get you up and running. /Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-12-Inch-1-33-GHz-Hard-Drive-Replacement/703/all#s3717