Dell Inspiron 7500 - Manual (Page 116)

3. Remove the bracket.
4. Remove the two 3-mm screws from the side of the plastic carrier.
5. Remove the two 3-mm screws from the bottom of the plastic carrier.
6. Disconnect the flex cable from the CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive connector.
7. Remove the CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive from the plastic carrier.
Turn the carrier over with one hand and let the drive fall out of the carrier into your other hand.
To remove the side mounting bracket from the CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive (see Figure 16), perform the following steps:
1. Remove the two 2.5-mm screws from the side of the CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive.
2. Remove the side mounting bracket.
Figure 16. Side Mounting Bracket Removal
To remove the diskette drive from the plastic carrier, perform the following steps:
1. Remove the two 3-mm screws from the top of the metal shielding carrier.
2. Remove the two 3-mm screws from the side of the plastic carrier.
NOTICE: The metal on the shielding carrier is sharp. Be careful not to cut yourself.
3. Lift the metal shielding carrier out of the plastic carrier.
Lift the back of the metal shielding carrier first and then slide it out.
4. Unsnap the metal latches along the top of the metal shielding carrier from the metal tabs on the bottom of the metal shielding carrier, and
then remove the top.
5. Remove the diskette drive from the metal shielding carrier.
6. Remove the flex cable from the diskette drive.
7. Remove the 3-mm screw securing the mounting ear from the diskette drive, and remove the mounting ear.
When reassembling the diskette drive, be sure that the bottom of the metal shielding carrier sits inside the groove at the front of the plastic carrier.
1 Metal shielding carrier (top)
2 Flex cable
3 3-mm screws (4)
4 Plastic carrier
5 Metal shielding carrier (bottom)
6 2.5-mm screws (2)
7 Diskette drive
8 Mounting ear