Yep, be careful with the screws. Use a high quality perfect fit screwdriver.
Backing up? Use an external HDD via USB. Only thing you need to know here is that it needs to be formatted FAT32. Windows can only format FAT32 to 32GB. Just google "greater than 32gb FAT32". There is a free easy to use utility (EXE) that will allow you to format your external HDD on your PC greater than 32GB with FAT32.
The backup process took about 20mins for my half filled 40gb. Restore seemed to be a bit quicker, probably because the OEM 40gb is not exactly a high performer.
Anyway, it was a painless affair except for those damn screws. Obviously machine tightened at the factory. I replaced it with a 320gb. The only weird thing is that when I restored, 40GB was used instead of 20gb. Yes I know a 320gb HDD is not actually a true 320gb HDD since they count a GB as exactly 1bill bytes (it's actually 2^30 bytes) but I still lost 20gb somehow, and I did not allocate a petition for another O/S.
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