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Got my 320 GB WD Scorpio Blue today from Play and proceeded to install in my Sammy. Unfortunately things went wrong real quick! I had got half the 14 screws off the back of the case and set about on one of the corner screws (top left when looking at xp certificate the right way up) Whilst applying very little pressure to the head of the screw I managed to strip it. It was hopeless, the more I tried to recover it the worse it got.
This was extremely frustrating! I got all of the other screws off no problem and I had been so very careful as I had read about other members on the forum having the same issues. Eventually I decided that as it was a corner screw, if I could flex the back panel enough to get to the hard drive enclosure I might be able to slip it out. And it worked! I couldn’t access the screw holding the hard drive enclosure down but I could access the side screws holding the hd in the enclosure. I slipped my new one in and screwed the back panel back on and voila!
I was extremely lucky I guess, that the back panel had quite a bit of flex in it and I avoided damaging anything. Now i’m back up and running on an image of the original 160GB.I am very p***ed off at Samsung for using such poor screws. Surely it wouldn’t have costed much more to use decent ones, especially on the RAM cover – the most common upgrade.
Be careful people!I think this might be more of a case of you using the wrogn screwdriver, not all cross drives posidrives etc are the same size and just seeing a cross head doesnt mean any old cros bit will fit! i test held 4 different bits against the screws on mine till i found the correct one, had i not just put the tools in the car i could tell you what number driver bit to use!
The screws are pretty bad as well as stripping the head of one I had another where the head sheared off (just a bit below the head), that certainly wasn’t a problem with the incorrect screwdriver.
I had the exact same problem, I went out and purchased a precision eyeglass screwdriver set from a hardware shop and was able, much to my surprise, get the screw out. I really thought I had mucked things up pretty bad, and the screw was very stripped (I even bought a special ultra fine craft knife with the hope of scraping it back into usable shape) but the precision screwdrivers worked perfectly on even the stripped screws (i had two of them, one in horrid condition and the other one only mildly stripped).
I have to say it was a bad experience… and felt lucky to get it to work in the end.
I’m glad we all had good outcomes in the end! I was certainly bricking it, it was not a nice experience. I’ve never come across such shoddy screws before. It’s a shame because the NC10 is generally a well built machine.
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I had the exact same problem, I went out and purchased a precision eyeglass screwdriver set from a hardware shop and was able, much to my surprise, get the screw out. I really thought I had mucked things up pretty bad, and the screw was very stripped (I even bought a special ultra fine craft knife with the hope of scraping it back into usable shape) but the precision screwdrivers worked perfectly on even the stripped screws (i had two of them, one in horrid condition and the other one only mildly stripped).
[/quote1232825884]I’m sure others will find this useful, nice one.
Im curious how you did the trasfer of the 160gb drive to the new one, what software you used and a brief outline of how you did it would be helpfull
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Im curious how you did the trasfer of the 160gb drive to the new one, what software you used and a brief outline of how you did it would be helpfull[/quote1232838582]
I used Acronis True Image Home 11 to make a backup. Here is a tutorial Hope that helps.
I had the same problem, couldn’t get one of the screws out because the head was ruined. I tried screw removers but no luck, returned the entire nc10 to newegg for a replacement. It IS a case of samsung using terribly poor quality screws, they are so cheap.
Gotta agree. I’ve had to get into my computer quite a few times (160 to 200gb to 160 to 60gb SATA to 200 to 60, then again for the new WiFi card).
The silver screws don’t look as good as they used to, and I’m using a screwdriver that fits it properly.
Does anyone know the exact specification of these screws?
It would be quite nice to replace them with better ones.[quote1232883633=Kow]
I had the same problem, couldn’t get one of the screws out because the head was ruined. I tried screw removers but no luck, returned the entire nc10 to newegg for a replacement. It IS a case of samsung using terribly poor quality screws, they are so cheap.
[/quote1232883633]DId you actually return it because of the screws? I’m sure opening the back invalidates the warranty but on the other hand the screws are a faulty component so there might be a case there.
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