[hllug] Re: Not a happy camper.
- From: Cranz Nichols <wb5bkl@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: hllug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:33:30 -0600
Don - this message was trapped in my GMail spam filter. I just got it
today. <Insert Agent 86* quote here>
My very vague recollection is that once John had the keyboard separated
(5 screws and three cables, IIRC), then he/we removed a
cross-piece/brace. That allowed us to remove the CD/floppy drive (very,
very carefully - there was a thin piece of plastic that looked
stressed). After that, the hard drive was more or less exposed to the
open air.
Apparently I only witnessed the parts of John's dissection that did not
involve springs - so you are on your own there...
cln
Meanest Man on Emeralds Drive
* http://www.wouldyoubelieve.com/
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 18:54 -0500, Don Crowder wrote:
> I got Ron's Thinkpad 380D tuned and tweaked with Win95 so it's running nicely
> but I wanted to try a Linux distro in it. I figured the easiest way to do
> that would be to temporarily swap out the HDD, because I don't have a copy of
> Win95 to reinstall if I can't get Linux working on it. No Problem. I asked
> Cranz at the Lakeshore meeting about getting to the HDD and he replied.
>
> "You just need to get the keyboard off".
>
> So I puzzled and pondered and got the keyboard removed only that didn't give
> me access to the HDD so I puzzled a while longer, dismantled it far beyond my
> comfort zone, got the plastic case separated and found that I still couldn't
> get to the HDD. After another half hour of puzzling I decided that it simply
> wasn't meant for me to get to the HDD, made a mental note never to ask
> questions of Cranz agtain and reassembled the darn thing while I could still
> figure out how only....
>
> once it was all back together, I found an odd looking little spring laying on
> the table.
>
> Rats.
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