How to upgrade cd drive on PowerMac G3 B&W

i just got a new DVD drive to replace the old cd drive in my PowerMac. How do I take the old one out and replace it with the new one?

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g3/faq/power-mac-g3-how-to-upgrad e-processor-zif-optical-zip-drive.html#optical
"...Apple declines to provide optical drive replacement instructions for end users, but the not for public distribution service source manuals (if they are still online) for the Desktop, Minitower, All-in-One, and Blue & White models, respectively, may help..."
http://preterhuman.net/texts/computing/Apple_Service_PDF/PowerMac_G3/powermac_g3 _blue.white.pdf
see page 67.

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Can this be done with TimeMachine and a Time Capsule? Any other option?
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yes, this can be done with Time machine. you'll need an external drive (could be a Time capsule or a directly attached drive). make backup of your current system. then replace the hard drive. then boot from the leopard install DVD and use the system restore utility in the utilities menu at the top to restore your old system from the backup onto the new hard drive. note that the new drive should be properly formatted: Mac os extended journaled format with GUID partition scheme. you'll most have to reformat the drive using disk utility first before using the restore utility.
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mxdxpx wrote:
This is a compaq f700 what do you know about them?
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Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)
Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
Xserve (Early 2009)
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In February 2012 I purchased Drive Genius 3.1.1 from Other World Computing. Tried it. Not much use to me, so I forgot about it.
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/Library/Application Support/DriveGenius (folder)
/Applications/Drive Genius 3.app (icon)
/Users/Library/Application Support/DriveGenius (folder)
/Users/Library/Preferences/com.prosofteng.DriveGenius2.plist (file)
/Users/Library/Preferences/com.prosofteng.DGAgent.plist (file)
~/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.prosofteng.DriveGenius.locum
~/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.prosofteng.DriveGenius.locum
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After a lot more work, the "repeated-every-10-seconds" messages seem to be gone now.
To review, I already deleted these folders and files:
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     /Users/Library/Application Support/DriveGenius
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I have yet to determine whether the Mac Pro will go to sleep as it used to do.
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