Difficulty
Moderate
Steps
8
Time Required
20 minutes
- Battery 3 steps
- Disc Drive 1 step
- Hard Drive 4 steps
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Parts
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Place the laptop upside down on a table.
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Locate the battery (the grey block). Find the two tabs on one end of the battery near the side of the laptop.
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Using your fingers, press both tabs down at once until they are fully depressed.
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While holding the tabs down, slowly pivot the battery up.
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The battery is now free and safe to pull out.
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Push the tab down as far as possible using your finger or plastic opening tool to unlock the disc drive.
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While still holding the tab down, use your other hand to pull out the disc drive straight out of its place.
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Unscrew two 2.4mm screws at the bottom using a Phillips #0.
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Also unscrew another 2.4mm screw in the same line as the first two, located at the disc drive's opening and closest to the bottom right corner.
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Flip the computer so that the top is facing upwards.
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Open the computer
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Use a spudger to lift the bottom black cover on both sides at any point.
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Flip the cover over and sit it on the keyboard.
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Mind the tab at the bottom when pulling it out.
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Lift the hard drive towards you and pull it out like you did with the battery.
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Flip the hard drive to the side.
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Hold the hard drive and use a spudger, preferably a wider one, to remove the black pin holder at the side where it touches the hard drive.
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Wiggle the black pin holder little by little on each side until the holder comes off.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
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