Harddrive Pullout

The hard drive is connected to an IDE (ZIF) slot on the circuit board.
It needs to be pulled out gently but firmly

Start by lifing the free end:

Hold the copper connector to avoid excessive stress on it and pull.

The disk should come out

Check all pins are intact and not bent

This is a standard 2.4 ATA-IDE port, it seems to be marked 1.2volts

The hard drive is a laptop PATA HDD, the capacity is shown as 80GB on the top right corner. The drive is being used in master mode.