Removing The Hard Drive; Prerequisites; Procedure - Dell Inspiron 14-3473 Service Manual

Removing the hard drive

WARNING: Before working inside your computer, read the safety
information that shipped with your computer and follow the steps in
working inside your
the instructions in
practices, see the Regulatory Compliance home page at
regulatory_compliance.
CAUTION: Hard drives are fragile. Exercise care when handling the hard
drive.
CAUTION: To avoid data loss, do not remove the hard drive while the
computer is in sleep or on state.

Prerequisites

1 Remove the battery.
2 Remove the optical
3 Remove the keyboard.
4 Remove the base

Procedure

1 Open the latch, and disconnect the hard-drive cable from the connector on the
system board.
2 Remove the two screws (M2x3) that secure the hard-drive assembly to the
palm-rest assembly.
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