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Designs like that are a failure in my opinion. Access to HDD should be super easy as it is most likely to fail and need replacing. Lately I've encountered laptop that would allow for easy change of only one stick of RAM. Changing other one required disassemble of like 30% of laptop. But this not as horrible design as the one you've encountered.
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@oscylo I was expecting to remove a small cover and a couple of screws but instead I had to remove the whole top of the laptop.
Luckily I found a few how to videos on YouTube that really helped. -
@Gogeta70 having the right tools for the job would definitely help!
Where is the LAN cable and why the hell does my chair not...
Oh.
When you're preparing for a hard disk format:
I'm a web developer and know jack about hardware. My wife's personal laptop was going very slow so decided to upgrade to a SSD. How hard could it be?
Turns out to be very fiddly trying to disconnect and reconnect 4 ribbon cables. To get to the HD and replace it.
Restarted laptop and thought it was all good, but only certain keys worked and the mouse pad moved but didn't click?!?
Had to take it apart and reconnect twice more but now it's fully functioning once again.
Sticking to software in future. Massive respect to hardware specialists!
rant
why won't the keys work?
hardware
ssd