I didn't want to get into the details in case I couldn't describe it without pictures (and I'm not sure how to upload pics yet), but basically:
The hard drive itself is all one piece, there is no frame structure that can be separated from it (the screws screw directly into holes on the controller board - is that the right term? - on the bottom of the drive).
At least one small cable has to be plugged into the bottom of the hard drive and extends out a few millimeters, so the drive cannot lay flat on the bottom of the box; it must be raised.
The screws pass through the bottom of the box, have several little plastic bits (washers/tubes) that stack onto each screw to create the "base" for the hard drive, and the drive then rests on them.
My problem was that I never succeeded in getting the screws and the plastic bits all back in at the same time. You have to turn the assembly upside down to put the screws through the bottom (or support it in midair somehow, I guess). Then you have to stack all the plastic bits on the screws without the screws falling out (and there is nothing to hold them in). Finally, you have to rest the drive flat on all the plastic bits (and hope you didn't drop any during the process because they have to be exact or the drive will not be flat), fit the drive on top of the screws such that the screws go into the holes on the bottom of the drive, and tighten all the screws - without any screws or plastic bits falling out, because if even one of the others falls out while you are tightening a screw, you have to start the whole process all over again.
Evidently there's a way to do it, since the engineers got the darn thing assembled in the first place. If I had persisted long enough, I might have worked it out even with my clumsy fingers, but eventually all my messing about resulted in one of the cables getting damaged, and the drive had not been working in the first place, so I gave it up as a bad job. I still have all the bits and bobs though!
More than you wanted to know, sorry...
The hard drive itself is all one piece, there is no frame structure that can be separated from it (the screws screw directly into holes on the controller board - is that the right term? - on the bottom of the drive).
At least one small cable has to be plugged into the bottom of the hard drive and extends out a few millimeters, so the drive cannot lay flat on the bottom of the box; it must be raised.
The screws pass through the bottom of the box, have several little plastic bits (washers/tubes) that stack onto each screw to create the "base" for the hard drive, and the drive then rests on them.
My problem was that I never succeeded in getting the screws and the plastic bits all back in at the same time. You have to turn the assembly upside down to put the screws through the bottom (or support it in midair somehow, I guess). Then you have to stack all the plastic bits on the screws without the screws falling out (and there is nothing to hold them in). Finally, you have to rest the drive flat on all the plastic bits (and hope you didn't drop any during the process because they have to be exact or the drive will not be flat), fit the drive on top of the screws such that the screws go into the holes on the bottom of the drive, and tighten all the screws - without any screws or plastic bits falling out, because if even one of the others falls out while you are tightening a screw, you have to start the whole process all over again.
Evidently there's a way to do it, since the engineers got the darn thing assembled in the first place. If I had persisted long enough, I might have worked it out even with my clumsy fingers, but eventually all my messing about resulted in one of the cables getting damaged, and the drive had not been working in the first place, so I gave it up as a bad job. I still have all the bits and bobs though!
More than you wanted to know, sorry...