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PowerBook 3400 M3553 Floppy Disk Drive Replacement

Device	PowerBook 3400 M3553
Difficulty	Very easy
Time	30 seconds
Steps	3

This guide is by Michael Mondragon on iFixit and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0. ByteRot mirrors it for non-commercial preservation: formatting changed and photos resized for old browsers; full-size photos and the text are on the FTP in /DOCS/REPAIR. Original guide >>

You can easily remove the floppy drive in order to repair or upgrade it.

Step 1

• Close the screen and turn the PowerBook over, orienting the computer upside down, using the label to guide you.

Step 2

• Hold the button on the front left side and slide the battery out.

Step 3

• First, slide the switch on the back of the computer to the left.
• Then pull the floppy drive out of the computer.

Conclusion

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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