Optical Drive Installation Guide for ThinkPad G40/G41

Optical Drive Installation Guide for ThinkPad G40/G41.

Before you begin:

Turn the machine off.

Disconnect the AC adapter.

Remove the main battery.

Remove the keyboard:



In step 2, push the keyboard from the bottom, while at the same time pushing a little in the direction of the arrow in step 3. Take care not to bend the keyboard when lifiting it at step 4.

After remove the keyboard, you can now start to remove current optical drive:



Reverse above steps to install new optical drive.