replace disk

Swapping the disks was easy too. Earthing straps required.

The plastic drive compartment cover on the back of the tablet was held on with 3 small phillips screws, and a slightly larger recessed one in the corner. Once undone, the cover then slides towards the side, and lifts off.

Inside, the disk itself is in a whole bunch of silver shielding. It's held onto the case with 4 smaller screws*. Undo them, then carefully lift off the IDE connector from the chassis, which links - via a small curvy IDE ribbon - to the disk. Lift out the disk / silver case thing with a bit of leverage at one end.

Once outside, you'll see the silver shielding is held in place with 2 small strips of metal (one on each long side of the disk) which also attach to those screws* above. So, undo the 2 screws on each strip and they come off.

The IDE connector just slides off, mine was quite tight...

The silver shielding part - it's almost like a tin-foil bag for the disk itself - isn't attached, so pull out the disk.

Reverse those steps with the new disk, and you're reassembled. Easy.