MacBook Core 2 Duo Optical Drive Replacement - Page 5

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Edit Step 13 — Optical Drive ¶

Grasp the white plastic tab attached to the hard drive and pull it to the left, removing the hard drive from the computer.

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Remove the two Phillips screws from the front edge of the optical drive.
- Two 3.25 mm Phillips #000, (Head: 4 mm. dia. x .3 mm thick)

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Disconnect the orange optical drive ribbon cable from the logic board. This cable can also be disconnected by prying straight up using a spudger.

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Required Tools

Spudger

Phillips #00 Screwdriver

Coin

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