Combo Module Disassembly - Dell Inspiron 7500 Replacement Manual

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2. Remove the four 3-mm screws securing the hard-disk drive inside the carrier.
3. Remove the hard-disk drive from the carrier.
Turn the carrier over with one hand and let the drive fall out of the carrier into your
other hand.
4. Remove the metal carrier from the plastic cover.
The metal carrier is held in the plastic cover by two tabs on each end. Carefully
pry the carrier away from the tabs.
Pull the hard-disk drive connector off of the hard-disk drive.

Combo Module Disassembly

The combo module (see Figure 14) contains either a CD-ROM drive, a DVD-ROM
drive on top of a diskette drive, or DVD-ROM drive with a SuperDisk LS-120 module.
The combo module resides in a carrier that slides into the media bay on the left side
of the computer.
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