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Sunday, 30 December 2018
Compaq Armada 1750 - How To Remove The CD-ROM Drive
The first thing you need to do is remove the keyboard by pressing the 2 keyboard release catches as shown here:
You then need to remove 2 screws:
You can then slide the CD-ROM drive out:
That's it! The CD-ROM drive has now been removed.
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