Slide the hard drive assembly to the right to disconnect it from the motherboard. Remove one screw securing the hard drive assembly. NOTE: In order to remove the cooling fan, you’ll have to remove the heat sink. When the bottom cover removed you can access the cooling fan, wireless card, processor and hard drive.Īs I mentioned before, my goal is replacing the hard drive. These screws securing the bottom cover to the top cover. As you see, the brown tab still attached to the base but the cable is released now. On the following picture the connector is shown in the unlocked position. Do not separate it from the connector base. The brown tab must stat attached to the white base. In order to unlock the connector you’ll have to move the brown part about 2 millimeters to the direction shown by two arrows. On the following picture the cable connector shown in the locked position. When the keyboard turned over, you can access the cable connector.īefore you remove the keyboard, the cable connector has to be unlocked and cable released. Now you should be able to lift up the keyboard and turn it over on the palm rest.īe careful, the keyboard still attached to the motherboard. The keyboard will lift up a little bit and will not allow the latch to lock again. In order to remove the keyboard you’ll have to release all four latches. I pointed to latch locations with four arrows. There are four spring loaded latches securing the keyboard to the top cover.