Dell 48x IDE Internal CD-ROM Drive Teardown

ID: 48958

Description: Learn to take apart a Dell 48x IDE Internal...

Steps:

1. Unscrew the top four screws.
2. Make sure that you don't mix up the screws.
3. They are different and you don't want to use the wrong screws.
4. Why would they do that?

5. Take off the plate that you unscrewed last step
6. Put all the parts that you had taken off on the side so you do not lose them

7. Unscrew the four screws on the next plate.

8. 4- take off the top plate by lifting the back up and lightly pulling up.
9. the picture to the left is what it looks like after you take the plate off.

10. 5-flip over and push the side tabs in and lift the bottom piece off (it might be hard to do but try not to force it off).

11. 6-push piece down and slide the disk piece out.

12. 7-what is would look like.

13. 8-unscrew the three screws on the spin piece.

14. 9- unclip the chip in the front/back then lightly lift the piece up.
15. to put this device back together just do the steps backwards, nothing is hard to do.
16. be cautious because there are wires under the chip do don't pull hard or you are going to break it.