NOTE: You, the customer, are solely responsible for data security. WinBook strongly recommends that you perform a backup of all personal data contained on your system prior to performing this procedure. Warning: WinBook will NOT be held responsible for any data loss incurred during this process.

Important Terms:

Rail kit—this is the metal box that contains the actual hard drive. The rail kit is the metal box that you see when opening the hard drive access door. It is used to mount the hard drive in your machine.

Tools You Will Need:

• A small Phillips blade screwdriver

Removing the existing hard drive

1. Situate the machine as if you were using it.
2. Locate the hard drive access door. This is found on the front of the machine toward the left side. This panel may be removed by pressing in gently and sliding the door to the left. This door should come completely off of the machine.
3. Behind the door you should see a metal box with a little handle attached. This is your hard drive surrounded by the rail kit.
4. Keeping in mind where you saw the metal box, turn your machine over. On the bottom, near the front of the unit you should find two small screws. These screws are approximately one half inch from the front of the unit. Remove these two screws.
   WARNING: PLEASE TAKE CAUTION IN REMOVING THESE SCREWS. BE SURE TO USE A PROPERLY SIZED SCREWDRIVER. FAILURE TO DO SO CAN DAMAGE THESE SCREWS AND PREVENT THEM FROM BEING EASILY REMOVED. IF THE SCREWS CANNOT BE REMOVED, THE UNIT WILL NEED TO BE SERVICED TO HAVE THEM REMOVED.
5. Now turn your unit back over. Locate the hard drive again and flip up the little handle. Pull on the handle. The hard drive and rail kit should come out easily
6. Once the hard drive is out, you can lift the hard drive out of the rail kit. The hard drive is connected to the rail kit via a small ribbon cable with a connector attached. In order to completely remove the hard drive from the rail kit, you must pull this connector off of the hard drive. DO NOT PULL BY THE RIBBON CABLE. There is a small circuit board attached to a black plastic connector that covers pins on the hard drive. You must pull this part away from the hard drive to uncover the pins on the drive.
7. You have now completely disassembled the hard drive and rail kit.

Installing a new hard drive/Reinstalling the hard drive

1. Before beginning you should make sure you have all the necessary parts to proceed. You should have the hard drive and the rail kit.
2. Look at the end of the hard drive. There should be two sets of pins. The large set will have 43 pins. On the bottom row of this large set there will be one pin missing—this is normal. There is another set of 4 pins. The set of 4 will not be used.
3. The large set of pins will fit in to the connector that is on the rail kit. These 43 pins will only fit into this connector in one way. The pins are easily bent, so use caution when connecting the hard drive.
4. Once you have this connector attached to the hard disk then seat the hard disk down into the rail kit. Your hard disk is now ready to be installed into your WinBook LM.
5. Insert the hard drive and rail kit assembly into the drive bay on your WinBook LM.
6. Turn the machine over and fasten the drive into place with the two screws that were removed above.
7. Put the outer cover back in place.
8. Your WinBook LM hard drive is now installed.

If you have any questions regarding this procedure, or if you run into some difficulties while working through this procedure, please call WinBook Corporation Technical Support at 1-800-468-1225 Monday through Friday 9am-9pm EST.

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