Remove screws securing the hard drive to the laptop.

Disconnect the black cable by pulling it away from the hard drive.

Lift the black latch to unlock the cable.

Remove the hard drive cable from the lower, blue circuit board

Remove the hard drive from the laptop.

Or, unlatching the cable lets you keep the black adapter attached to the hard drive to remove as one unit.

My latch was white and it rotates in the black base.