Acer Aspire E5-571P-55TL Hard Drive Replacement

Introduction

If your Acer Aspire E5-571P-55TL is taking excessively long periods of time to open or run programs, your hard drive may need to be replaced. The hard drive is a physical disk that is constantly read from and written on, which leads to wear-and-tear over time. To see more common issues which may require hard drive removal, see our Acer E5-571P-55TL troubleshooting guide.

This guide will explain how to replace the hard drive for the Acer E5-571P-55TL. Before performing actions in this guide be sure to power off your laptop and remove the power adapter.

What you need

Step 1 Battery

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Make sure that laptop is turned off.
Turn the laptop upside down with the battery facing you.

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Step 2

Place the Spudger into the battery lock and slide it to the left until you hear the battery unlock.

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Step 3

Pull the battery towards you to remove it from the laptop.

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Step 4 Keyboard

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Using a Phillips #0 screwdriver, remove each of the eighteen 8 mm screws from the bottom of the laptop.

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Step 5

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Carefully place your fingers underneath the top of the keyboard just below the screen.
Pull upwards until you can hear the keyboard click out of place.
Continue around the entire laptop, carefully pulling the keyboard and palm rest assembly slightly from the frame to reveal the ribbon connectors.
Don't pull the keyboard off the frame yet because it's attached by ribbon connectors.
After the keyboard is detached, unplug each of the three ribbon cables and remove the keyboard and palm rest assembly.

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Step 6 Hard Drive

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Using a Phillips #0 screwdriver, remove the two 8 mm screws holding the hard drive carriage in place.

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Step 7

Carefully unplug the ribbon cable running across the hard drive carriage and place it to the side.
Remove the hard drive by sliding it to your right, away from the motherboard, next pull the hard drive towards yourself and away from the laptop.

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Step 8

Once again using a Phillips #0 screwdriver, remove the two 3 mm screws highlighted on each side of the hard drive case.
Open the hard drive case to replace the hard drive.

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