Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!news.unit0.net!newsfeed0.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!news.motzarella.org!not-for-mail From: RickMerrill Newsgroups: japan.comp.toshiba Subject: Re: How to disassemble a Portege R600 laptop Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:22:10 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 51 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.eternal-september.org U2FsdGVkX1/hVfP2f/+ye9SH3KmKIUuZYQdRBX3tl4sJFNiqTg8Smc3oIq3ukvRqET1E2YzAjPPp2xi+ORyI74u1rCmViM2qCXtFEtxntCSLBTx9PbGHkS3XRjcnjcE7Ud4cjJqJvgHMAYAVEoteeg== X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:22:10 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX18BBHRoiJIYuXnnTdBfUL0p1ZnpDz4LWPDsO60UMA+SbQ== Cancel-Lock: sha1:Dgp/8nDKB3finYKL+m8Q7QWLdc4= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081204 NOT Firefox/2.0 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 Xref: news.ccsf.jp japan.comp.toshiba:1632 HLE wrote: > RickMerrill wrote: >> HLE wrote: >>> RickMerrill wrote: >>>> HLE wrote: >>>>> The R600 ultraportable is just being released to the U.S. market, >>>>> and we might have one of the first. Our intent is to replace the >>>>> hard drive, but despite decades of experience we can't get it >>>>> apart. Toshiba tech support (in Manila) doesn't have any data on >>>>> this yet. >>>>> >>>>> We removed all (really) of the screws on the bottom, and the entire >>>>> bottom is free except for the area around the hard drive. The left >>>>> edge (various ports) hangs, indicating that the keyboard might have >>>>> to be pried up - we don't want to do that unless it's the way to go. >>>>> >>>>> ?? >>>> >>>> >>>> There are plenty of design techniques to defeat what you want to do. >>>> Has Toshiba given you permission to reverse-engineer the product?-( >>> >>> >>> Reverse-engineer? I want to swap hard drives, not manufacture laptops. >>> >>> Toshiba CSR said that changing hard drives will not void my (three >>> year!) warranty, but they do not yet have information to help me do it. >> >> I have heard of situations where the RAM, and possibly the hard drive, >> were accessible under the KEYBOARD! Have you looked there? >> > > There's a removable panel over the RAM - no problem. And with the bottom > as free as possible, we can see the hard drive as well. > > It's possible that one must get to the hard drive via the top. It would > be on the thin edge next to the touchpad - and we haven't figured out > how to gain access. There is no obvious way to lift the keyboard or the > top panel (palmrest, bezel, etc.) - that's why I'm looking for help. > This design was released in Asia and the EU before it came to the U.S., > and I was hoping someone on this newsgroup had been there, done that. > Apparently not ! But http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JD3zUKCMljY/R7yRhR1C-lI/AAAAAAAABf0/_3U0iSthlhM/s320/laptop%2Brepair.jpg laptop+repair.jpg (JPEG Image, 195x320 pixels) suggests that the bezel around the power switch flips up!