Never took one of these apart, but there would be two possibilities, easy and
hard. The easy one would be if the drive was held in place by a retaining screw
on the bottom of the chassis. The hard one would be partial disassembly per the
service manual. You may be able to find a service manual somewhere on the web,
but not usually on the HP web site, which hides service manuals from view of the
unwashed public (unlike Dell and IBM/Lenovo)... Ben Myers
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:25:58 -0400, "mark" <blah@doody.com> wrote:
>Has anyone done this who can give me some insructions? I was hoping it would
>slide out but I cannot figure out how.
>TIA
>Mark
>
I replace the HD a while ago and it was fairly simple. I was hoping this
would be simple also, however I did remove any screws on the bottom that
could possibly hold the optical drive in place and no luck. I contacted hp
for a service manual and again no luck. They suggested that I take it to a
service center. Probably why hp was at the bottom of consumer reports
customer service list in the June '08 issue.
Thx for the feedback.
"Ben Myers" <ben_myers_spam_me_not@charter.net> wrote in message
news:f95m54pj47lgqpdflht6a378ofih0a6fb4@4ax.com...
> Never took one of these apart, but there would be two possibilities, easy
> and
> hard. The easy one would be if the drive was held in place by a retaining
> screw
> on the bottom of the chassis. The hard one would be partial disassembly
> per the
> service manual. You may be able to find a service manual somewhere on the
> web,
> but not usually on the HP web site, which hides service manuals from view
> of the
> unwashed public (unlike Dell and IBM/Lenovo)... Ben Myers
>
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:25:58 -0400, "mark" <blah@doody.com> wrote:
>
>>Has anyone done this who can give me some insructions? I was hoping it
>>would
>>slide out but I cannot figure out how.
>>TIA
>>Mark
>>
replacing optical drive on ze5700 
Linear Mode
