HP 15-R011DX Hard Drive Replacement

Geschrieben von: Ethan Guillotte

Kommentare: 3

Schwierigkeitsgrad

Easy

Schritte

Zeitaufwand

8 Minuten

Einleitung

A hard drive can be the source of many issues in a laptop computer. This means that it is important to know how to replace a hard drive. Before you decide to replace a hard drive, you should always attempt to back up your data to a secondary source so that nothing is lost in the process.

Werkzeuge

Schritt 1

Slide the lock mechanism on the left side of the laptop to the right.

Schritt 2

While holding the right slide mechanism, remove the battery from the laptop.
The battery is not pictured here because it is missing from this particular device.

Schritt 3

Flip the laptop over to reveal screw locations.
Use a metal spudger to remove the two rear rubber feet. There are screws hidden underneath them.

Schritt 4

Remove the twelve 5mm Phillips #1 screws on the back of the laptop.

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Remove the DVD drive from the laptop.
Remove the two 3 mm Phillips #1 screws underneath the DVD drive.

These two steps are in the reversed order! You need to remove the DVD drive before getting access to the screws.

Lars Voßwinkel - 05/01/20

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Flip the laptop and open.
Detach the keyboard by prying it free from the laptop using a spudger.
Do not completely remove the keyboard yet. It is still attached by a ribbon cable.
Disconnect the keyboard ribbon cable.

Schritt 7

Disconnect the two narrow ribbon cables to the left of the keyboard connection.
Remove five 4 mm Phillips #1 screws from the metal tray for the keyboard.
Pry open the plastic casing using a spudger.
If struggling to remove the plastic case, check that all screws have been removed.

It was hard to get the edges up of the entire cover because it didn't want to come all the way loose.... So I looked at a video for this and saw that tech was prying up the keyboard FIRST -- BEFORE GOING AROUND THE EDGES AND REMOVING THE TOP COVER.

Jeff Teachworth -

ALSO... The black cover top has snaps all the way around the INSIDE hole where the keyboard was removed from. You'll have to unsnap it all along those inside edges too, to get that top cover off. Don't pull the cover all the way off because there's a thin white ribbon cable attaching the touch pad to the main area. I just placed it up higher leaning against the screen, so the hard drive and the RAM areas would be accessible since I'm replacing the RAM today.

Jeff Teachworth -