Introduction
The hard drive can be replaced if the user wants to upgrade with a hard drive with more memory. It will also need to be replaced if the memory in the current hard drive becomes corrupted.
What you need
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Flip the device over and use a plastic opening tool to remove the bottom cover.
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
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This guide completely skips over the details on how to disconnect the cables. This is by far the trickiest part of this operation. The fact that the commenter above tore his SATA cable is proof that crucial steps of this procedure are missing!
How on earth do you disconnect the flat SATA cable from the motherboard safely?
the fact that you tore the ribbon cable is as sign you should do more research before pulling on cables. I have repaired quite a few of these machines and the cable is quite resilient and is not this paper thin delicate cable it is made out to be. Please do your research if you are unsure, the guides here really do rely on some level of technical knowledge and these cables exist in a lot of electronics. as for a replacement I believe you can find them overseas, ie. china and what not, just need to do some digging. also a lot of people dont actually have much success in repairing or swapping drives on these as the android system and Widevine key that exists on the original drive is absolutely manditory in restoring to the new drive, and requires a basic linux terminal knowledge and knowledge of how to view capture and edit HEX on a HDD. Be very sure you are ready to tackle this before cracking a shield open!
One thing I will say for this guide that is very misleading, swapping the drive is not as easy as plug and play! look this up and make sure you follow guides on cloning the drive to the T. I highly recommend using a drive cloning device that does not require a computer. just make damned sure you have the source drive and destination drive in the right spot. If the drive clone goes smoothly this is easy, if it fails or you mess up the bootloader sector on the drive be in for a Google XDA forum nightmare hunt that will likely lead you to giving up or losing all your hair. One word of advice is if you do end up plugging this drive into a windows machine DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES INITIALIZE THE DRIVE! I cannot stress this enough. this will nuke the bootloader and brick the drive. it is recoverable but at great cost to sanity.
