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Chapter 6: Upgrading Your Notebook
7 Remove the battery. For more information, see “Changing batteries”
on page 53.
8 Remove the hard drive bay cover screw, slide the hard drive bay
cover, then remove it.
9 Remove the two screws securing the hard drive kit to the notebook,
slide the old hard drive kit away from the hard drive connector, then
lift the hard drive kit out of your notebook.
10 If your new hard drive already includes the hard drive kit bracket,
go to Step 15.
-OR-
If you need to move the hard drive kit bracket from your old hard
drive kit to your new hard drive, go to Step 11.
11 Remove the screws that secure the hard drive to the hard drive kit
bracket.
12 Remove the bracket from the old drive.
13 Insert the new drive into the bracket so the screw holes line up.
14 Replace the screws that secure the bracket to the drive.