Before you put the new drive in your housing, you might want to read the formatting page. I ran into a slight problem with partitioning the drive once it was inside the housing and there are a number of methods to format the new drive you plan to install, some of which require the drive being out of the housing to accomplish these tasks.

Reassembly is pretty straight forward - you just reverse the instructions from the disassembly page. However, there are a few things to take note of:

Note 1:

If your hot glue bee bees have come off, you might want to rectify that problem while most of the drive is apart. I did not hot glue the wires back to the top of the housing. If this method failed once, it will probably fail again. My solution was to get some heat resistant foam - the kind they use to line the insides of hard drives where circuit boards usually come in contact with the metal. If it's good enough to not catch fire INSIDE a hard drive, it will probably do a good job of not bursting into flames on top of the drive. I used double sided sticky tape to secure the foam to the front top of the new hard drive in the Ikebana housing. The foam will press up against the top of the housing and prevent the lights from coming lose should I shake the drive wildly or dop it (like Kurt did).

Note 2:

Did you pay attention to where the red and black wires were run inside the housing? I didn't! Took me a few minutes to figure out how they were run, but I got it all back together.

Note 3:

If you tore the metallic tape when prying the metal box off the back, don't sweat it. I don't think this really served much of a purpose other than tomake the insides look tidy and maybe helped to direct heat from the drive out the bottom (where the vents are in the housing). Then again, this could be the very thing hold the fabric of our world together. No pressure.

Note 4:

If you mangled the rubber feet when you took them off and they won't stick back on now - no worries. Get some rubber cement and apply a thing layer to the rubber feet and to the plastic housing where the feet fit into. Let it dry a few minutes and then stick them together. Any overpaint can be rubbed off with your fingers once it's dry.

Note 5:

CRAMMING SPEED! At not time did I have to exert any kind of real force on any parts of the housing or the innards to get the unit apart or back together. If you're straining to put this thing back together, something isn't right and you're going to break it.