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Taking your xbox 360 apart easily | Take your xbox 360 apart easily
By ChrisGamingExpert, (DT)
March 9, 2010 8:09 AM PT

Various steps for taking take apart your xbox 360

With a proper way it becomes easy to take apart your xbox360, disengage all the wires from xbox, once everything is incoherent hold power button in for couple seconds to clear any electric charge left in the console.

Then remove hard drive and any memory unit you might have plugged into the relieve.

Remove the hard drive by pressing button on the hard drive and pulling straight up.

Remove the faceplate by gripping the top and bottom near the left side of the console and pulling resolutely but slowly until it pops off, then repeat this on the other end.

How to pull apart xbox 360

To pull apart xbox 360 ,remove top and bottom gray mesh panels by prying them off with any small objects by inserting them into holes on the sides of the xbox console at the left, middle, and right points where you can see the grey tabs and pushing in to release the catches. Separate top and bottom of white case by inserting flat head screwdriver or knife blade into the back of the console at the points shown in the picture.

Complete partition of the case by using a fingernail to unhook the tabs on the front of the console starting on one end and working your way to the other side, there should be 4 tabs to release, after that's done the top of the case should just slide right off.

Next step would be using your Torx T10 star screwdriver remove the 6 screws shown in the following picture, you don't need to remove any other screws even though there's a bunch on there. After all 6 screws are removed and set aside so you don't loose them, flick the console over so that the remaining half of the white case is on top.

Make sure that the metal part that you just unscrewed the screws from is facing down, on the table or ground, etc. After that pull the white case straight up, it should separate easily from the rest of the console, and set it aside. From here you should see the guts of the console, keep the disc-drive, cooling fan, motherboard, and a white guard to direct air flow in the console.