Introduction
Use this guide to remove or replace the black plastic base plate on your Mac mini Late 2014.
Tools
Parts
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The bottom cover is clipped onto three screw posts.
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Pry near, but not right on the screw posts.
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Conclusion
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
Read Me First: I purchased an SSD drive directly from Crucial and, of course, it came uninitialized. After going thru the entire tear down, installing the new drive, and rebuilding the mini, it refused to recognize the new drive. So, of course, I had to re-tear it down, remove the new drive, insert it into an external housing and format it using my Macbook. After that the mini recognized the new drive. A word to the wise: format the new drive before installing it.
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