The boss's Compaq Presario 1200Z laptop has gone catatonic:
The LCD doesn't light, and the external monitor sees no video (it used
to always come up displaying on both). Of course, backups haven't
been done quite recently enough. Before sending it in for repairs,
I'd like to copy the hard drive. I do own an adapter for connecting
normal IDE cable and power to a 2.5" drive, assuming that's what it
has. But I'd have to be able to get to the drive, and a small amount
of fiddling (all 8 screws on the bottom plus the one accecible through
the open battery port) doesn't seem to loosen things enough. I can
the end caps off of the display hinge rod easily enough, but not the
center hinge cover, and I hesitate to disassemble the end hinge pieces
without knowing how the electrical connections are made.
Does anyone know how to open these cases without damaging
anything?
Bill
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