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ThinkCentre M73 / E73 / M72e Small Form Factor Desktop - Solid State Drive Replacement - YouTube
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Hi everybody. I鈥檓 Mike with Lenovo,
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and I鈥檓 here with the ThinkCentre M73 series
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which is available in three form factors. We have a Tower, the Small, and the Tiny.
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Today we are going to be replacing the solid state drive in the small form factor.
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The process should take about fifteen minutes, and it should be easy enough for anyone to do.
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The only tool required will be a Phillips screwdriver.
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Before we continue, we want to make sure that we are protected against electrostatic discharge, or ESD.
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For more information on ESD, click the link in the description.
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Now let鈥檚 get started.
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First, you want to remove the two thumb screws.
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Then slide the cover back and lift it.
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Now we want to pop the clips loose on the front bezel, and then open it and remove it.
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And we still have a cable here that goes inside.
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And now we need to open the drive bay assembly,
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and we just want to open it until this latch pops and locks it open.
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Now we need to disconnect the power button cable from the system board.
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And now we have these two clips that hold the cable in place.
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Twist to open the clips and then you can pull the cable out.
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So now we just need to pull the front bezel away from the system
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and feed this cable through the hole in the chassis.
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Now we need to lay the system down flat on the table.
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Before removing the hard drive, we have to disconnect the cables,
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so we disconnect the power cable and then the SATA cable.
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And then on the other side of the drive bay assembly we have four screws
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that we need to remove that hold the drive bracket in place.
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And then we just pull the bracket out.
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So now we need to remove the drive from the bracket,
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so we flip it over and we find four screws that need to come out.
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And then we can just pull the bracket off, and there is the drive.
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So here we have our new hard disk drive in the anti-static bag.
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And we want to go ahead and remove it from the bag and place it in the system.
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So now we have the new drive to put in the bracket,
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so we place it in with the connections to the outside edge and the drive pressed up against the tabs.
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And then we install the four screws.
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Then we place the bracket into the drive bay assembly,
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making sure that the screw holes line up on the other side,
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and install the four screws to hold it in place.
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Then we need to connect the SATA cable to the drive.
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Now we connect the power cable.
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So now we need to stand the system back up to put the front bezel back on.
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We need to feed the power button cable through the hole in the chassis
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and pull it all the way through.
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Then we鈥檝e got to make sure the cable goes back into the clips
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and you twist the clip to close it.
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Now we need to reconnect the power button cable to the system board.
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Now we need to close the drive bay assembly.
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You want to press down on the blue touch point on the latch,
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which allows you to close it.
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Then you just make sure it closes all the way.
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Now we want to align the hinge clips with the holes in the chassis,
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and then close the front bezel like a door.
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We place the cover onto the system and slide it forward.
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Then replace the two thumb screws.
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