foozle ([info]foobart) wrote,
@ 2007-11-07 16:45:00
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A brief journal
0:00 Hmm...I need to swap out this laptop's hard drive, but there's no obvious way to get it out.

0:15 (16 screws later) Hmm...this laptop is sure hard to get into

0:30 (10 more screws later) OK, it's almost coming apart. What's still catching?

0:40 (4 more screws later) LCD is detached, doesn't seem to help matters

0:50 (2 more screws) Aha! That small plastic bit snaps on; removing it shows more screws

0:55 (4 more screws) OK, it's apart. The hard drive is under the motherboard? Crap. That's another 10 screws or so. WTF Dell?

0:56 Wait a second...(removes two screws that were accessible from the very beginning, pulls out hard drive rendering entire work done so far not only obsolete, but counterproductive).

0:57 <bangs head against wall>



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[info]mdrnprometheus
2007-11-07 05:31 pm UTC (link)
Y'know, Dell does have a website full of "how to remove part X from model Y" manuals.

Go thou forth and RTFM, my son.

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[info]foobart
2007-11-07 08:04 pm UTC (link)
<mumble mumble mumble> 20/20 hindsight <mumble mumble mumble>

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[info]kyra_ojosverdes
2007-11-08 03:01 am UTC (link)
So been there.

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[info]mohanalakshmi
2007-11-11 08:10 am UTC (link)
Well, at least you know how to use a screw driver :).

Props on doing this yourself. I had to take my Toshiba to the service center so they could replace the DVD drive which was jammed.

But that website should be helpful for future projects.

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