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Acer Aspire E5-571 Hard Drive Replacement

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  1. Acer Aspire E5-571 Hard Drive Replacement, Battery: step 1, image 1 of 1
    • Make sure the laptop is shut down.

    • Flip the laptop upside down. Rotate it so the battery faces you.

  2. Acer Aspire E5-571 Hard Drive Replacement: step 2, image 1 of 1
    • Place the pointed end of a spudger into the battery lock. Slide the battery lock to the left using the spudger. A "click" sound will accompany the release of the battery.

    On the E-572P the hdd and memory is accessed from the removable flap on the bottom of the laptop - do not try to take the keyboard off!

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  3. Acer Aspire E5-571 Hard Drive Replacement: step 3, image 1 of 1
    • Pull the battery towards you to remove it from the laptop.

  4. Acer Aspire E5-571 Hard Drive Replacement, Keyboard: step 4, image 1 of 1
    • Remove all eighteen 8 mm screws with a Phillips #0 screwdriver.

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    • Carefully pry apart the clips holding the keyboard in place by moving a metal spudger along the seam.

    • Be careful not to break the plastic clips. Do not remove the keyboard until told to do so.

  6. Acer Aspire E5-571 Hard Drive Replacement: step 6, image 1 of 2 Acer Aspire E5-571 Hard Drive Replacement: step 6, image 2 of 2
    • Carefully flip up the white hinge. Then, detach the three ZIF ribbons connected to the motherboard.

    • Remove the panel with the keyboard and the touchpad.

    not a complete guide, there is more steps to disassembly keyboard

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  7. Acer Aspire E5-571 Hard Drive Replacement, Hard Drive: step 7, image 1 of 1
    • Locate the hard drive in the metal casing.

  8. Acer Aspire E5-571 Hard Drive Replacement: step 8, image 1 of 1
    • Remove these two 4 mm Phillips #1 screws.

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    • Locate this ZIF ribbon and carefully flip the white top hinge up and bend the ribbon over to the right side.

  10. Acer Aspire E5-571 Hard Drive Replacement: step 10, image 1 of 2 Acer Aspire E5-571 Hard Drive Replacement: step 10, image 2 of 2
    • Slide the hard drive to the right and gently lift it off of the laptop.

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    • There is one screw on each side of the metal hard drive casing you remove.

    • Slide the hard drive out of the metal casing.

Conclusion

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

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8 Comments

You can't beat the internet when it comes to sorting out a problem.

Many thanks to the author of this guide, it really helped me out

Michael Lee - Reply

These are excellent clear instructions, well done and thank you

David Waterhouse - Reply

Great directions. With visual ades too...nice.

Thanks

Jackie Abbott - Reply

Thank you for the clear instructions, this is an excellent guide.

Toni-Marie Catchpaw - Reply

Very helpful guide. Thanks for that! Only thing missing was a warning about where the plastic clips were around the body to make it easier to pop those without breaking the plastic tabs on some of them. Even that isn’t all that important really.

Michael King - Reply

Agreed, that would be very helpful

Techulon Technology Services -

I just updated the steps to show plastic clip locations

Techulon Technology Services -

ACER ... every time I open ACER notebooks I get angry on those %#*@ ZIF ribbons. I hate them!

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