On Mon, 21 Jul 2014, James B. Byrne wrote: > Never mind. One can flex the caddy sufficiently to pop the drive. > Although this is definitely not the supported procedure. The case > is marked by the vendor with 'Non-Return Hard Drive Machine'. The alternative that I'd propose is using Clonezilla to image the vendor-shipped drive, install CentOS 7 on the HD, and then re-image the drive if necessary. It's how we treat all Lenovo machines, regardless of whether they'll be running Linux or Windows. Having the original disk image has come in very handy on more than once occasion. -- Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W