Hard drive mounting bracket missing...

The hard drive of our 17month old mac has died, and when I opened it to replace I discovered the mounting bracket was missing. Could this have played a part in its death?
Anybody else find this part missing?
Thanks
Sophie

Lex there is a hard mounted bracket on the front side and a removable one, held in with 2 screws, on the back side of the drive. Once you take the removable bracket out the drive lifts up from the back side freeing the screws in the side on the front side from the hard mounted mounting bracket. You take those side drive screws out of the old drive and put them in the sides of the new drive then reinstalled it in the hard mounted mounting bracket first then let it drop into the recesses on the back side and then put the top part back on and tighten the screws down.

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