I know this was stupid. It was like when I decided to change the partitions on a perfectly running system. Without taking any backup of course.

My laptop (an ancient Toshiba Satellite 1905) was bothering me for long time. It’s been a while since it lost its mobility (not much battery juice left, cover refuses to close and open, and 4.5Kg doesn’t seem light to me anymore). But it is my desktop replacement after all and I didn’t feel like paying manymoney to a desktop and keeping this somewhere unused. I did all tricks to bring the screen to an OK position. My ultimate goal was to get rid of the cover and make use of LCD in someway. If I was close to my friends with necessary tools I could just tell them what to do and they would handle it. But no, I am stuck here (no offense) and I have these:

But then, I was at home, had my dinner, watched a movie, had two beer and didn’t feel like working. I just saw a web site with instructions on how to disassemble the Toshiba laptops and that was haunting me all day.

Last time when I cut and not paste the sync cable of my PDA (another ancient piece from Sony, a friend help me to make the charging directly from USB but we were not very careful about packing it back) my wife made her point and that’s why I was not brave enough to try this before. But tonight I couldn’t stop it (she was far enough). I know, it is a small step for the hardware hackers of the world, but a giant one for me:

Before you ask, this model has a detachable keyboard and I also have an extra wireless keyboard for long hours typing.

Next step is to remove the cover, turn the screen upside down on put the computer in a vertical position. But first I have to figure out a nice/secure way to position it. So much for tonight…

Ah, before I forgot, that time, I managed to change the partitions of my hard disk (the one and only and without any backup) and didn’t damage the data. At least at first time. Then, just after that (the very same night just after the first boot), I was not happy with the partition sizes and wanted to change again. That is when I lost all my data…