-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Peter Garza wrote: > Has anyone had the "opportunity" to take apart a Hitachi model 3745 > sub-notebook to get at the internal hard disk drive? It is a Visionbook > Traveler 3000 series. It is not obvious were to pull, pry, unscrew or > otherwise disassemble the unit to remove the hard drive. > > Normally there are hard drive upgrade instructions on manufacturer's web > sites or user manuals. No luck in this instance. We contacted Hitachi > and it took several days to finally be told they release their > maintenance instructions only to authorized service centers. When we > first called we had been told for several days that they could not refer > us to tech support because the maintenance computer system was down so > this has been an exercise in tech-support futility. We did locate a > Southern California authorized service center that claims to be able to > take the system apart for us, but I'm hoping someone can save me the > trouble because I'm not convinced they have ever seen this particular > model. Just grab your camera and start taking out screws. The worst that can happen is that you'll take out too many screws. The camera's so you can keep track of how it disassembled so you can reassemble it later. I've done it with all kinds of laptops and other electronic devices. No horror stories here. Personally, based on the experience you describe with Hitachi, I sincerely doubt I'll *EVER* buy one of those beasts. Any company that can't release even basic functional diagrams of its products for customer maintenance is hopelessly out of step with reality and I'd never want to be cursed with their products. - -Jay ( ( _______ )) )) .-"There's always time for a good cup of coffee."-. >====<--. C|~~|C|~~| (>------ Jay D. Dyson - jdysonat_private ------<) | = |-' `--' `--' `--- Every day's a Friday when you have a gun. ---' `------' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: See http://www.treachery.net/~jdyson/ for current keys. iQCVAwUBOyWR2dCClfiU/BIVAQELPAP8CWhUtkigS/Hkbw5p06GNUjWmXykq3Mqp YhEc3P8Ec3sapv3Eud8UUfo0IvQ+5pt0TvAAZvzYXrdPHyorF8qxB5lnCzI8IyW7 nyo/WNWbKBYAFmbasKwS0np9Lz0c1MKWBVKoEv9EfvOJ6/IeOTMVmsowlSd9783L DKvl0rt4+zo= =zGsm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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