Changing Your Computer Hardware Configuration

Hard Disk Drives

4.Insert the T-15 Torx Hard Disk Mounting Screws through the rubber mounting grommets and into the screw holes located on the sides of the hard disk drive. See Figure 5-39.You should tighten these screws using 6 inch-pounds of torque. Note that in order to screw the T-15 Torx screws into the sides of the hard disk drive you will have to have a T-15 Torx driver that is long enough to fit through the access holes on the sides of the hard disk drive bracket.

Figure 5-39 Inserting the Hard Disk Drive

Mounting

Grommet

(do not remove)

T-15 Torx

Shoulder Screw (there are

four of them)Hard Disk Drive Bracket

Hard Disk Drive Mounting Screw Access Hole (there are four of them)

Hard Disk

Drive

5.Slide the assembly into its hard drive slot, and push inward on the release lever until the front of the hard disk drive bracket is flush with the system unit and the lever snaps closed. The front panel should now be replaced as explained in the section “Closing the System Unit Front Panel” in this chapter.

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