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Hard drive rail system
Rohan
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I have an Aspire M1610 here that we've been using as a media pc for a while. We're swapping it out for another machine, but I'm having serious trouble removing the hard drives out of whatever rail system Acer has employed. As far as I remember, there were no issues installing the drives - as you can see in the pictures below, all I had to do was slide the drive in, and lock it into place with the green dial. Removing them however, is unbelievably difficult.
Simply turning the dial and pulling out the black piece of plastic it is attached to does not work. As I show in the photographs, the hard drives are not screwed in anywhere - there are no holes for screws. I opened up the front panel and the side panel also, and they are not helpful at all - the front panel shows that the drives have a metal grille that cannot be opened in front of them, while the side panel merely illustrates that the drives are not screwed in.
They simply will not budge. On top of each hard drive there appear to be two metal hinges of a sort, that I also show below in the photographs. I have tried slotting two flathead screwdrivers under each, and pulling and lifting, and nope - the drives remain firmly ensconced and refuse to move. If anyone could help me with this, I'd be very grateful - I have a lot to do today and I didn't plan to spend more than an hour transferring drives, network cards and an operating system to the new pc.
The plastic rails that attach to the hard drives.
The hard drives in their enclosure.
The little clips on top of each hard drive.
The front panel removed, to show the metal grille in front of the drives.
The back panel removed, showing no screws or anything else attached to the drives from that side.
Simply turning the dial and pulling out the black piece of plastic it is attached to does not work. As I show in the photographs, the hard drives are not screwed in anywhere - there are no holes for screws. I opened up the front panel and the side panel also, and they are not helpful at all - the front panel shows that the drives have a metal grille that cannot be opened in front of them, while the side panel merely illustrates that the drives are not screwed in.
They simply will not budge. On top of each hard drive there appear to be two metal hinges of a sort, that I also show below in the photographs. I have tried slotting two flathead screwdrivers under each, and pulling and lifting, and nope - the drives remain firmly ensconced and refuse to move. If anyone could help me with this, I'd be very grateful - I have a lot to do today and I didn't plan to spend more than an hour transferring drives, network cards and an operating system to the new pc.
The plastic rails that attach to the hard drives.
The hard drives in their enclosure.
The little clips on top of each hard drive.
The front panel removed, to show the metal grille in front of the drives.
The back panel removed, showing no screws or anything else attached to the drives from that side.
...and I thought of how all those people died, and what a good death that is. That nobody can blame you for it, because everyone else died along with you, and it is the fault of none, save those who did the killing.
Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
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