Open the laptop and locate the keyboard. Identify the borders of the keyboard.
Taking plastic opening tools in hand, carefully and gently pry open the outer perimeter of the keyboard.
Wrong, you can't just remove the keyboard, you have to remove the 2 bolts labeled keyboard on the bottom or you are going to have a bad time.
Once part of the keyboard has popped up, continue to lift the keyboard until it is removed.
Need to detach the two ribbon cables.
how do you reattach the ribbon cables?
Pop out the black frame found underneath the keyboard using the plastic opening tools.
Once the frame is popped out continue to lift the frame gently.
You have to remove several screws on the bottom and a few screws underneath the keyboard before this step, there is no mention of any of this in your steps.
I concur, failure to mention this critical information made me chip chucks of plastic away. I thought I was doing something wrong
Locate and remove the silver hard drive cover in the bottom right corner.
Detach and remove the hard drive from the black plug located to the right of the hard drive.