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What is the name of this certain computer part, and where can I obtain one?

My parents bought an Acer Aspire 5315 Notebook for me a few months ago. After having it for a few months, my hard drive broke, so I contacted the company. I sent in the hard drive to get a free replacement. When I removed the hard drive, I also removed a rectangular, three-sided metalic piece that screws into the hard drive and laptop itself and sent it in with the hard drive. When I got the new hard drive, this metalic piece was gone. I've contacted Acer multiple times to try to get a replacement, but no one seems to know what I am talking about when I describe the metalic piece. Does anyone know what that rectangular, three-sided metalic piece is called? Does it even really have a technical name? I wasn't sure if knowing the technical name would help me obtain one from Acer or somewhere else. That leads to my next question. Does anyone know where I could get one of those pieces that would fit my computer and hard drive?

Public Comments

1. You are more than likely talking about the hard drive cover plate or sometimes called a hard drive caddy. http://www.laptopking.com/kingpartdetails.asp?ref=178&category=caddys this one should work for your laptop if i am correct in guessing what your talking about.
2. This attachment fits into the pins of the hard drive then you push the hard drive into the laptop. you can go to computer repair shop and ask for that most computer repair shops have it.