Sam and friends, I was able to follow this guide and replace a 1TB original Hitachi drive with a Samsung 1TB SSD. Cloning the drive with MacOS Disk Utility was the first step. I ordered the recommended parts from iFixit, including adhesive strips and followed all the steps. Then I went reverse the steps as this article says. Then, OOPS! I had to backtrack to apply the new adhesive strips. But I did it, a really a complicated job for a first-time with iMacs. Super write-up with excellent photos. Apple designs EVERYTHING to be difficult to repair!

There needs to be more added to cover the first part of re-assembly. To connect up my SSD, I needed to remove screws that held in place the black plastic to the left of the drive bay. This was only way to get the added space needed to connect the SSD to the drive cable. I also connected the SSD first, then attached the rubber bumpers, simply to give me more room to maneuver the drive next to the connector. All in all, yes, a person well familiar with tearing down iMacs could do it in an hour or so. But frankly, the design of this iMac is a total horror show when it comes to repair or replacement of parts, especially given its reliance on glue and adhesives. Gee, just like other Apple products.

The V241IC I just worked on had four cables to be disconnected, not two, to detach the screen completely from the motherboard. These is no picture here of the cover over the motherboard, either, but that is a no-brainer to figure out. It’s nice that Asus used the same size and thread of screws throughout this repair.

Like the original motivation of this article, I had to replace a pathetic 1TB 5400rpm Seagate drive with a solid state drive. Now the V241IC operates like a real computer, booting up and responding quickly. What Asus would cripple this nice all-in-one with a slug-slow hard drive is beyond me. Better to start with solid state and charge more, rather than going for cheap.

I used my go-to pry tool, the blade of a large 4” blade Wenger knife. I was successful starting from one side and eventually popped the top and bottom clips. Sorry, but little plastic pry tools are not up to this sort of job nor many others, and they break or chip unexpectedly.

I keep my fingernails fairly long, very handy for many computer repair jobs. This gives me 10 spudgers over which I have very fine muscular control. It is far easier to pop some of these tiny delicate MacBook parts loose with my nails.

For sure, if someone is in the business of repairing XBox Ones, it would make lots of good sense to clone an XBox 2.5" SATA hard drive onto a spare drive, to be used in the future to replace a crashed drive. Open source disk drive cloning software like Clonezilla will clone any drive, with most any file system and partitioning. If, for any reason, Clonezilla would not do the trick, there are other disk cloning packages. But I've got to believe that Microsoft uses NTFS or maybe a Unix/Linux file system for the XBox One, although they have been known to do some really stupid things, like Vista and Windows 8.