techrecovery | Oct. 7th, 2002

OK so today the analyst from hell known as Bungle got an arse-kicking from the boss about telling a school a pile of crap. It was quite fun to eavesdrop on.

Bungle was wound up enough about that already when he came looking for a replacement hard drive for a Lime iBook. So I gave him one and watched the puzzled look on his face as he tried to figure out how to do it.

So I offered him a copy of the 'How to change an iBook hard drive' crib sheet from Caslis.org which he gladly accepted. If I haven't made it clear - Bungle is an arse and can barely boot up his own laptop without help.

I took great glee in watching him skim through the take apart and turn a rather interesting shade of greeny white. Its really not that difficult to do, you just need a little patience and a space to lay out all the bits on.

So me being the nice guy that I am offered to go through the take apart procedure with him so long as he was about to make a start on it (this was at about 12 noon), which again was gladly accepted.

So I start by sending him off to get a torx driver kit, a nut spinner kit and a jewellers driver kit, then we proceed by me telling him to:

• Open the CD tray and turn the iBook over
• Take out those six torx screws and that phillips screw
• Flip it over, open it and remove the two screws from the memory cover
• Unplug the keyboard and set aside
• Remove those three screws
• Prise apart the top part of the bottom case after disconnecting those two cables
• Unplug the CD rom cable and use the nut spinner to take out that screw post
• Remove those four screws from the modem shield and peel it back
• Remove the two screws from the modem socket and the one from the modem board
• Remove the modem and set aside
• Take out the four heatsink screws and note where the larger one came from
• Unplug the two display cables and then remove the three screws and set aside the display
• Remove the five screws from the shielding, three different types, noting which comes from where
• Voila! There's the hard drive, only three more screw posts to remove.

See told you it was simple. Bungle was really greatful for me going through this with him. In less than 10 minutes.

Oh sorry Bungle, did I forget to say that I've got to go now? I need to be at the garage in 15 minutes with my car? See you later, I'm sure you'll manage to put that lot back together again. Bye!

I'm fairly sure that he turned even more green, in fact about the same colour as the iBook.

Ha. I love being a bastard to Bungle.