HOW TO REMOVE THE SONY VAIO VGN-N365E HARD DRIVE

This was a real pain because Sony doesn't and won't release a hardware maintenance manual. You have to take all the screws off that you see on the bottom with the little arrow next to them. Slide out the optical drive and remove the 3 screws hiding behind it. Remove the battery and take out the 3 screws behind it. Now look at the bottom of they keyboard below the row of keys with the space bar in it. There are 4 tabs that have to be pushed toward the touchpad to release the keyboard. It should swivel up now. Be careful as there is a ribbon cable behind it. Gently slide the dark brown bar away or to the right from the beige connector in the keyboard. That will release the ribbon cable. You can now see the last screw holding the top cover in place. Unscrew that screw and then you can remove the top cover. Gently pop up the edges of the top cover and work your way around. You will have to swivel the screen as far back as it goes to pop up the cover. You can just lift and move the top cover toward the screen now and reveal the hard drive. The touchpad has a smaller ribbon cable so you can choose to disconnect it if you want, but you don't have to. There are two long screws near the SATA connector that you have to remove. After taking them out, you can gently slide the drive out to the loft, caddie and all. I suggest labeling all the screws as you take them out or taping them in similar positions on a piece of paper so you can put them back in.

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