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Installing PowerBook G3 Lombard Hard Drive

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This guide is only intended to be used as a prerequisite for other guides. It's incomplete by itself.

Introduction

How to remove the hard drive, along with its cable and bracket from your computer.

What you need

  1. Installing PowerBook G3 Lombard Hard Drive, Keyboard: step 1, image 1 of 1

    • Turn the computer so that the ports are facing you.

    • If the keyboard is locked, open the port cover and turn the keyboard locking screw until the keyboard is unlocked.

  2. Installing PowerBook G3 Lombard Hard Drive: step 2, image 1 of 1

    • Pull the keyboard release tabs toward you and lift up on the keyboard until it pops free.

    • Make sure you have removed the laptop battery and CD/DVD module from the expansion bays before proceeding.

  3. Installing PowerBook G3 Lombard Hard Drive: step 3, image 1 of 1

    • Lift the keyboard out by pulling it up and away from you. Rest the keyboard, face down, on top of the trackpad.

    • In order to replace the keyboard, you must first remove the modem.

  4. Installing PowerBook G3 Lombard Hard Drive, Heat Shield: step 4, image 1 of 1

    • Remove the three silver Phillips screws that attach the heat shield to the internal metal framework.

  5. Installing PowerBook G3 Lombard Hard Drive: step 5, image 1 of 1

    • Lift the heat shield up and pull it toward you.

  7. Installing PowerBook G3 Lombard Hard Drive: step 6, image 1 of 1

    • Your laptop should look approximately like this.

  8. Installing PowerBook G3 Lombard Hard Drive, Modem: step 7, image 1 of 1

    • Remove the two silver Phillips screws from the modem.

  9. Installing PowerBook G3 Lombard Hard Drive: step 8, image 1 of 1

    • Use a spudger, the tips of your fingers, or a flat non-metal tool to get under the modem's edge and pry it up from its socket as shown in the picture.

  10. Installing PowerBook G3 Lombard Hard Drive: step 9, image 1 of 1

    • Disconnect the cable from the right side of the modem.

  11. Installing PowerBook G3 Lombard Hard Drive: step 10, image 1 of 1

    • Your laptop should look approximately like this.

  12. Installing PowerBook G3 Lombard Hard Drive, Processor: step 11, image 1 of 1

    • Use a spudger, the tips of your fingers, or a flat non-metal tool to pry up the processor's right side.

  13. Installing PowerBook G3 Lombard Hard Drive: step 12, image 1 of 1

    • Disconnect the keyboard cable from the logic board by pulling directly up on the clear plastic loop.

    • This step is out of sequence with the keyboard because in order to remove the keyboard you must first remove the modem.

  14. Installing PowerBook G3 Lombard Hard Drive: step 13, image 1 of 1

    • Your laptop should look approximately like this.

  15. Installing PowerBook G3 Lombard Hard Drive, Hard Drive: step 14, image 1 of 1

    • Grasp the orange cable at the left end of the hard drive and disconnect it from the logic board.

    • Try to grasp the cable on the plastic connector rather than on the flexible cable section.

  16. Installing PowerBook G3 Lombard Hard Drive: step 15, image 1 of 1

    • Grasp the plastic tab and pull the hard drive up and to the left, making sure that the metal bracket doesn't catch on the black plastic casing.

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