Mid-2007 MacBook hard drive change

I am putting a new hard drive in my mid-2007 MB pro. I am unable to completely release the top of the case. All screws are out, I think. Case will not release in the front in th area of the screen release button and the lower right corner of the mouse pad. I have the two screws out from the front in the battery box. What am I missing?  Is there a trick? Where can I find instructions? Maybe a drawing showing all the screw locations? Thank you. Bob

Hi Kren,
I went to a Toshiba 320 GB, 16 MB, 7200 rpm drive. There are cheaper Western Digital drives available from Amazon but I really did not like the customer reviews. I've used drives from drivesolutions.com before and when I called, I got a few bucks off the online price plus a choice of drive brands. I like Toshiba. They are nice and quiet and have always worked well for me before. Additionally, I'm not a big video person so, even though I partition the drive for Mac OS on one side and through bootcamp put Windows Vista (soon to be Windows 7) on the other, this 320 GB drive will give me a good amount of space compared to the old 120 GB drive. So far the upgrade looks good.
Bob

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