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4 Upgrading and Servicing Guide
3 Release the drive from the chassis by lifting the
tab (1) on the latch drive bracket, and then sliding
(2) the drive partway out of the bay. (The latch
drive bracket secures the drives in their respective
positions in the chassis.)
4 Disconnect the power cable (1) and data cable (2)
from the back of the drive you want to remove, as
indicated in the following illustrations. Use a gentle
rocking motion. Some units may have a sound
cable. If so, disconnect the sound cable (3).
disconnecting the optical drive cables
disconnecting the memory card reader drive
cable
disconnecting the diskette (floppy) drive cables
disconnecting the hard disk drive cables
5 Pull the drive out of the drive bay.
6 If you are replacing the old drive with a new drive,
remove the four guide screws (two on each side)
from the old drive. You need these screws to install
the new drive.
replacing or adding a drive
1 If necessary, remove the existing drive. See
“removing a drive“ on page 3.
2 If you are adding a drive to an empty lower optical
drive bay, you must remove the blank plate from
the bay. To do so, insert a flat screwdriver into the
blank plate slot (C) and rotate the screwdriver to
break the blank plate out of the chassis. Discard the
blank plate.