Owners Manual

Removing the Optical Drive

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information that shipped with your computer and follow the steps in

Before Working Inside Your Computer. After working inside your

computer, follow the instructions in After Working Inside Your

Computer. For more safety best practices, see the Regulatory

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Prerequisites

Remove the battery.

Procedure

1 Remove the screw that secures the optical-drive assembly to the

computer base.

2 Using your fingertips, slide the optical-drive assembly out of the optical-

drive bay.

1 screw 2 computer base

3 optical-drive assembly

3 Remove the screw that secures the optical-drive bracket to the optical-

drive assembly.

4 Remove the optical-drive bracket from the optical-drive assembly.