someone who shouldn't be playing in the insides of computers.
So, I was finally able to extract the stripped screws from the case of my lap top, which allowed me to get into the guts of the computer and replace the dead hard drive with the new one. However, simply firing the puppy up after putting it all together would be all to easy.
I have to now reinstall the operating system so that I can have a functioning machine. However, it won't read my new hard drive. Running the hardware test shows that the logic board is fine and everything else is working, so the issue may be a faulty ribbon cable running from the hard drive to the logic board. Thankfully, this is only a ten dollar fix, and as I now have taken apart the bloody thing twice already, I know what I'm doing. Sort of.
Just a little bit more effort, and I'll once again have a 6 year old laptop at my disposal. It would have been so much easier just to send the thing away, but honestly, where's the fun in that?
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