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Having issues with your Optical or CD drive in your laptop? No need to go out and break the bank on computer repair technicians! This guide includes text accompanied by step-by-step photos, allowing almost any user to handle this technical issue all on their own.
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Placing your finger on the raised grip, push the battery casing to the right. It will slide over.
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Look at the bottom of the laptop. Using a Phillips screwdriver, unscrew and remove the screw labeled F4, located on the cover of the hard drive.
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Placing your finger on the raised grip, push up on the hard drive cover. This will remove the hard drive cover from the laptop.
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Using a Phillips screwdriver, unscrew and remove the screw surrounded by the white plastic.
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Pull the white plastic out toward you. This should remove the hard drive tray from the laptop.
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Stick a spudger in one of the sides of the top panel. Lift slowly from one side to the other and it will pop off.
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Using your hands, lift keyboard up toward you, starting from the edge closest to the screen.
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Find the white ribbon connector (where the keyboard is still attached to the rest of the laptop).
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Slide the white ribbon connector up and lift the ribbon out of it.
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Using a Phillips Screwdriver, unscrew and remove the one F4 screw closest to the center of the laptop.
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Using your finger, lift off the plastic covering the trackpad by putting your finger underneath the plastic and pulling towards you. The plastic should just pop off.
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Remove the left, brown ribbon by pinching the part of the ribbon connected to the computer and lifting towards you.
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Remove the white ribbon on the right by pinching the part connected to the laptop with your fingers and pulling towards you.
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Using a Phillips screwdriver, unscrew and remove 5 screws labeled F6, located on the metal piece on the left side of the keyboard area.
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Using a Phillips screwdriver, unscrew and remove two screws labeled B25 located closest to the screen.
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Using a Phillips screwdriver, unscrew and remove two screws labeled B5.5, located to the right of where the metal piece was.
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Using a Phillips screwdriver, unscrew and remove two black screws from the back side of the laptop.
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Using a Phillips screwdriver, unscrew and remove F4 screw from plastic covering on the bottom of the laptop that only has one screw.
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Using your fingers, pinch the black modem piece, lift and slide the modem up and move it aside.
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Using a Phillips screwdriver, unscrew and remove 5 B20 screws, located along the corners of the bottom of the laptop.
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Using a Phillips screwdriver, unscrew and remove 3 B25 screws from the bottom of the laptop.
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Using a Phillips screwdriver, unscrew and remove 3 F6 screws from the bottom of the laptop.
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Using a Phillips screwdriver, unscrew and remove 3 F4 screws from the battery area of the laptop.
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Lift open the screen of the laptop and, using your fingers and the guides on the side of the laptop, push up on the top plastic covering of the laptop, moving from one side of the laptop to the other.
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Setting screen next to the base of the laptop, pinch the connecting cable with your fingers and gently pull connecting cable from monitor.
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As shown by the photo, remove the small green computer part by pinching the top with your fingers and gently lift it away from the laptop.
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Using your fingers, slowly slide the optical drive out of the laptop, towards you, until you are able to completely lift it away from the computer.
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To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in the reverse order.