Figure 6-11: Plug in the battery.
7. Remove the hard drive from the iPod, and remove the pieces of blue or
grey rubber that protect the hard drive (see Figure 6-10).
8. Put the pieces of rubber on the new hard drive.
9. Plug in the new hard drive.
10. Plug in the ribbon cable for the audio jack.
11. Plug in the ribbon cable for the battery (see Figure 6-11).
12. Put the iPod back together.
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To replace the hard drive in a first- or second-generation iPod mini:
1. Open your iPod mini according to the instructions in Chapter 3.
2. Locate the mini??™s Microdrive on the backside of the logic board. It??™s the component with
Microdrive printed on it.
3. Unplug the Microdrive from the logic board (see Figure 6-12).
4. Plug the new Microdrive into the logic board.
5. Slide the logic board back into the mini??™s shell (see Figure 6-13).
Figure 6-13: Slide in the
logic board.
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After you replace your iPod mini??™s Microdrive, you need
to put the mini into Disk Mode and then restore the mini
in iTunes.
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