Replacing The Hard Disk Drive - Lenovo ThinkCentre 7673 Hardware Maintenance Manual

Replacing the hard disk drive

Attention
Do not open your computer or attempt any repair before reading and understanding the "Important safety information"
in the ThinkCentre Safety and Warranty Guide that came with your computer. To obtain a copy of the ThinkCentre
Safety and Warranty Guide, go to:
http://www.lenovo.com/support
This section provides instructions on how to replace the hard disk drive if your computer has one. For
computer models that do not have an internal hard disk drive installed and use a remote hard disk drive
accessed through the SMC - Storage Array, contact your network or storage administrator.
Important
When you receive a new hard disk drive, you also receive a set of Product Recovery discs. The set of
Product Recovery discs will enable you to restore the contents of the hard disk to the same state as when
your computer was originally shipped from the factory. For more information on recovering factory-installed
software, refer to "Recovering software" in your ThinkCentre User Guide.
To replace the hard disk drive:
1. Open the computer cover. See "Opening the computer cover" on page 71.
2. Disconnect the power cable from the optical drive.
3. Place your finger on the tab located on the front of the hard disk drive and push upward. Then press
inward on the side tabs and pivot the hard disk drive upward to remove.
Figure 23. Removing the hard disk drive
4. Remove the failing hard disk drive from the chassis.
5. Disconnect the signal and power cables from the hard disk drive.
6. Remove the hard disk drive from the plastic bracket by flexing the sides of the bracket enough to slide
it free of the hard disk drive.
7. To install the new hard disk drive into the plastic bracket, flex the bracket and align pin
3 , and pin 4 on the bracket with the holes in the hard disk drive. Do not touch the circuit board
on the bottom of the hard disk drive.
1 2
, pin , pin
5
.
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