ARRGH! Stripped screw on laptop...

[Catty1]

And I haven't even started the tech part....

Need to remove bottom panel of laptop to remove hard drive. The ONE LAST SCREW to remove is stripped. I can tighten it, but not remove it....'click click click'....

I try to life enough of the back panel to get the HDD but can't quite...this screw seems to attach the back panel to the drive case. And there isn't quite enough room to pull out the drive so I can get to work.

Beyond frustrating....

This guy's gonna be back from work in an hour and I can't even give him a progress report.

ANY ideas???

I am now Googling this...sheesh...

[Catty1]

LOL...I knew if I ranted on three forums, FB, here and Live Messenger, I would get it! Sheesh............

[Catty1]

Oh dang....don't tell me it's a SATA drive...

Well, don't have the USB adapter for THAT, so another trip to the store in Calgary....

[Catty1]

Tech friend lending me just the cable so I don't have to buy ANOTHER whole kit for $40! All is well.

Wanna lay bets on whether the HD actually works after all this?

[RICHARD]

Read the title of this thread very slowly, carefully and tell me what jokes YOU can come up with.

[Catty1]

No, RICHARD, that's YOUR job!

ETA: Duct tape solved the problem. All yours!

[blue]

Duct tape solved my problem too. Except my problem was caused by a plow driver.

Duct Tape FTW!!!

[wombat2u2004]

Read the title of this thread very slowly, carefully and tell me what jokes YOU can come up with.

I thought that to when I first read it
I wonder what Candace is REALLY up to ????

[RICHARD]

I thought that to when I first read it
I wonder what Candace is REALLY up to ????

Isn't it sad we turn all of the PT board into our own "dirty little secret"?

[wombat2u2004]

Isn't it sad we turn all of the PT board into our own "dirty little secret"?

It is sad Richard.
But then again......did we write that title line ???
After all....is not the author fully responsible for the words they write ???
And how the reader interprets those words ???

Now if I wrote that.....I would have probably went and dug a hole in my garden and stuck my head in it.

[Catty1]

Ya brats!

I wrote that in the heat of, er, frustration.....

[pomtzu]

Dirty old men - that's what they are Candace.......

[Catty1]

Yeah - too bad they live so far away!

[Catty1]

Wom, there is a Yiddish curse - "May you grow like an onion - with your head in the ground."

[wombat2u2004]

Dirty old men - that's what they are Candace.......

One track minds....dirt all the way...hee hee