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60 Chapter 3 Working Inside Your Computer
10 Carefully remove the ribbon cable from the top of the original drive and transfer it to
the replacement drive.
Important: Reusable adhesive tape on the underside of the ribbon cable attaches the
cable to the drive. When removing the cable from the original drive, be careful to keep
the tape with the cable.
11 Attach the ribbon cable connector and the power cable to the back of the replacement
drive.
12 Insert the drive part way into the drive bay and bend the free end of the ribbon cable,
then pull it down through the opening in the sheet metal divider at the back of the
optical drive bay.
Install the metal shield
on the optical drive.
Install the four metal optical drive guide
pins into the bottom of the drive.
Attach the power cable to
the back of the optical drive.
Attach the ribbon cable to the back of the
optical drive. Slide the other end of the
ribbon cable down through the opening in
the sheet metal divider inside the computer.