“How Do I remove the back panel? I have unscrewed all the 10 screws but there is hardly a hinge that I can use to lift. I could not find any videos online either. Any pointer on where to start would be great.”
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I started at a front corner and used a sharp item like a knife to pry between the back and main body. Once I got a bit of separation I slid a small flat blade blade screw driver around the edge to pop the pieces apart. Be careful there are many plastic tabs that hold the bottom panel on. You will want to make sure they have all been released prior to attempting to fully remove the bottom panel. In honesty, I found it more difficult to put the panel back on than to take it off. I will say however that fining the PCIe NVMe slot was a win. I saved an image of the original hard drive to a USB backup drive and then restored it to a HP EX920 M.2 1TB PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe 3D TLC NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) 2YY47AA#ABC installed in that slot and the performance increase was night and day. Macrium Reflect is excellent imaging software especially if you boot from CD/DVD ... which in this case I used an external USB DVD-RW drive in one USB port and the external USB backup drive in the other.
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