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Laptop Hard Drives Replacement Tips
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Laptop hard drives are fragile components. You need to avoid putting any mechanical stress on them. Replacing these slim, light-weight fixtures in laptops may be nerve racking initially. But if you don't use much force it can be done easily. Here are important tips to remember when replacing hard drives:
- Remove the battery as despite power buttons being protected under the closed lid of screens, power may come on due to mechanical jolts or a short.
- Look for the one long screw on the bottom of the laptop often concealed behind to hold the removable panels of the hard drive.
- This long plastic tube is both a screw guide and a mechanical support. The hard drive or the attached cage will come off when it is removed.
- The hard drive mounting system relies on the cage attached to the hard drive to be installed in the laptop. The only things that secure hard drives and cage are power and data connectors and a spring steel tab.
- The whole edge of the cage has to be pushed in to get the tab past the plastic stub that holds it into place.
- Remove the cage held in place with four screws. Make sure you note which way the cage goes before you take it off, because it will need to be mounted the same way.
- Once replaced, mount in the cage with the whole assembly to reinstall it in the laptop. Keep the drive on as shallow an angle as possible, close to the bottom of the laptop, as you slide the pins into the connector.
- The close tolerances on the laptop bay make it impossible to mate the connector improperly. Replace the lid and use the long screw to reattach it to the bottom of the laptop.
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