Remove hard drive Acer aspire e1-472 laptop

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Figured this out...
1)  Flip laptop over, keep front of laptop closest to you and hinges away from you 2)  Remove cover with cylinder/harddrive icon (2 screws) 3)  Remove small single silver screw near the front (close to you) of the laptop in the center of the metal harddrive caddy (the caddy may hold one or two hard drives) 4)  Pull the plastic tab on the left toward the outside of the laptop... the whole caddy with harddrive(s) inside will shift to the left, disconnecting it from the motherboard and lining up the caddy for removal. 5)  Lift the entire bracket straight up
To remove the primary harddrive (the only one present in my model) you must remove the blue L-shaped circuit board from the caddy. 1)  Flip the caddy over 2)  Remove the three screws with slightly larger head diameters around the perimiter of the caddy 3)  Push/slide/jiggle the circuit board so the sata connectors release from the hard drive(s). 4)  Unscrew the hard drive from the caddy

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If it works on another computer then either the ide cable in the acer is bad/loose at either end or the ide controller on the motherboard is bad. I would try a known good ide cable first as if this is the problem it is fixable alot cheaper than a motherboard. Hope this helps.

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dont need to remove the hard drive to make it boot up

what screen activity do you have when the machine starts

do you have a power light or battery light when the charger is plugged in?
do you get the start up screen when you press the start button?
We may be able to recover this unit using the eRecovery process,
(preinstalled on your laptop by ACER)

Please give me as much details as you can and I will tell you what you need to do from there
if thats any help

Thanks Misterdj

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Hello.

Disconnect the power adapter.

Remove battery

Remove Monitor screws in hinges.

Remove Strip with Power-On button - feels sticky

Remove keyboard screws

Remove keyboard - may need gentle side to side movement

Remove optical drive screw

Hope this helps.

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Watch this short video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abK3RWJcaPM