What steps are needed to detach the ribbon cable for installing an additional SSD on your laptop?
What steps are needed to detach the ribbon cable for installing an additional SSD on your laptop?
It was confirmed that the left section of the cable is already attached to the chassis, so I will just remove the MB side.
Yes - no metal bar here, just the black and white plastic section and the cable. This seems to be the most probable situation. Got a suggestion from a friend to attempt pulling the white part toward the cable like this on the MB side:
Thank you all for your assistance so far. I'll try it out and update you later today.
Success!
It turned out the black part of the connector was a latch, so it had to be flipped up. It's plastic and ridiculously thin and fragile so it doesn't seem like a latch at all. Here it is in the open position:
I just had to pry it open from underneath with a plastic pry tool. It required almost no force.
And here is a picture of the the SSD installed and working:
Thanks again for the help!