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Maintaining disk drives
feel the drive connector disengage from the backplane. Do not use excessive force. See the following figure.
9.Holding the drive by the handle, carefully slide it out of the drive bay.
10.Place the drive on an antistatic mat or in an antistatic bag.
11.Release the drive handle on the replacement disk drive. Use your thumb and forefinger to pinch the drive latch upward to open it.
12.Align the disk drive with its drive bay. Orient the drive so that the drive handle hinge faces the bottom of the drive bay.
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