10 Contents
Restoring your Microsoft Windows
Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Restoring Windows Vista®. . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Restoring Windows XP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
13 Adding and Replacing Parts . . . . . . . . . 161
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Recommended Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Turning Off Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Before Working Inside Your Computer. . . . . . . 162
Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Removing the Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Replacing the Hard Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Returning a Hard Drive to Dell . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Optical Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Removing the Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Hinge Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Removing the Hinge Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Replacing the Hinge Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Removing the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Replacing the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Removing the DIMM A Memory Module. . . . . . 172
Replacing the DIMM A Memory Module . . . . . 173
Removing the DIMM B Memory Module. . . . . . 175
Replacing the DIMM B Memory Module . . . . . 176
Subscriber Identity Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178