350 g2 upgrade hdd (to SSD)

[ken0407]

Hi,

Has anyone seen a good quality video or photographs explaining the removal of the Hard Disk Drive from an HP 350 G2.

Seen user and/or maintainence manul but details about removal are not clear.

Ken Maitland

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Hi, Ken:

I have the 350 G1 and when I first looked at it, I had no clue how to get the hard drive out.

I had never seen a mount like that in my life before.

I took a look at your manual, and it looks exactly the same as the G1.

I did not remove the hard drive connector from the PC.

What I did was to carefully pry up on the hard drive under the connector to the hard drive.

Then it lifted right out.

I then carefully disconnected the connector from the hard drive, removed the rubber mount from the HDD, put it on the SSD and installed my new Intel SSD. I put the connector back on before I pushed the rubber mount back into the drive bay.  There are 4 little nibs on the rubber mount that go into where the drive screws would go.

I searched in vain for you tube videos, etc., so I just went for it.

[ken0407]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for information.  Was not sure if drive was held in with another fixing so reluctant to just prise out.  However based on your advice went ahead - success!

Regards

Ken

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome, Ken.

Yes. I was reluctant to do anything too.  When I first opened the access door and saw the mounting, I was totally confused.

I also didn't like that the instructions stated you had to remove the drive cable from the zif connection.  That is never fun trying to get the cable back in just right.

The mounting seemed to be firmly in the bay, and initially I tried just pulling up on the whole shebang but it did not seem to want to budge at all--like it was securely fastened by something else.

But I thought to myself, how can they screw something down that can't be seen?

So, I happened to be upgrading the wireless card to the Intel Dual band 7260 and I took another stab at the hard drive.

Once I saw it gave from the drive connector area, I moved it up a bit, then pushed it back down, and went straight to Amazon and ordered a 240 GB Intel 535 SSD.

Enjoy!