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stuck hard drive caddy screws-my reinstall story
My inspiron stopped responding, so I ran the diagnostics and got the message "IDE drive 0 fails confidence test".
So I ordered a new drive and am now attempting to take the old one out of the caddy. 2 screws came out but the two that set closer to the middle of the laptop don't. I assume they are stuck from heating?
Any trick I can use here or should I go ahead and drill the screws out? Thanks!
So I ordered a new drive and am now attempting to take the old one out of the caddy. 2 screws came out but the two that set closer to the middle of the laptop don't. I assume they are stuck from heating?
Any trick I can use here or should I go ahead and drill the screws out? Thanks!
Message Edited by Chris_Nau on 02-26-2005 06:30 PM
Chris_Nau
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February 24th, 2005 22:00
Thanks, C
rickmktg
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February 24th, 2005 22:00
Stick the drive in the caddy in the freezer for two or three hours. Metal will contract.
funtoupgrade
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February 24th, 2005 23:00
It is also very important to have exactly the correct size phillips quality screwdriver for stuck screws.
funtoupgrade
jankerson
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February 26th, 2005 21:00
Chris_Nau
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February 26th, 2005 22:00
it turns out freezing it didn't work so I drilled it out
changing the drive was easy, reloading it was a P in the B. I have my data loaded onto a firewire HD but I needed to reload windows, plus everything else. Do you realize how may patches have been issued since the XP cd was issued? I would say about a trillion gigabytes. Thanks to roadrunner I had them before too long, but then had to reinstall M Office which triggered another round of updates. Then I reloaded Zone alarm and Anti-virus, and guess what? Someone got a worm on the drive even though I was carefull not to websurf.
Well, that is an education in backups. I guess I will try to ghost the drive, and I have a program that is supposed to do that, (NTI drive backup) that I paid $50 for that hardly ever seems to work, it likes to crash after writing about 8 CD's that you get to toss in the trash. Plus start over, like anyone has hours to play with the thing.
I hear Microsoft is planning on making windows update not work unless you have service pack 2 installed, I would like to see someone with a dial-up try to reload their system! I guess you can tell they would rather you buy a new computer, spending several weeks updating would make spending $1500 seem like a good idea!
Thanks to all who replied and tried to help out. Hope my little rant helps someone who is thinking they might need to change their drive. BTW, my drive gave no warning whatsoever it was about to give out. It worked fine one minute and the next it was frozen. I got a USB enclosure for it so I can read some of my data and it works for 20 minutes or so and then freezes up. Maybe it gets hot internally, but I have the thing sitting on ice and still no joy. Oh well, I was able to retrieve my favorites and several picture files that were not backed up.