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    Panasonic Toughbook CF T2 Hard Drive

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by liamo, Aug 29, 2009.

  1. liamo

    liamo Newbie

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    I'm a new boy to this site, just found it, I have 2 panasonic toughbook CFT2
    One of them (the best one) will not use the "s" Iwould like to swap the hard drives around, will it work ? is it easy to do?
    If two yeses - Please tell me how. Thank you.
     
  2. gray-beard

    gray-beard Notebook Evangelist

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    If you mean the "S" key doesn't work then it is much easier to just swap out the keyboard.
    Of course remove the battery first.
    About 6 screws from the bottom and the keyboard flips over and very carefully undo the ribbon cable and then put the other one on. Don't forget to re-apply some new thermal compound. (The keyboard is the CPU heat sink..)
    To change the hard drive the entire case needs to be split open, A much bigger job. Many more screws from the top as well as the bottom a couple more fragile ribbon cables to deal with.
    Not an easy job if you are a newbie.....
    I can't advise this to be your first "toughbook" project.
    CF 27, 28, 29s are much easier to work on.
    The cute little toughbooks are a pain in the @ss.

    Bob
     
  3. liamo

    liamo Newbie

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    HI gray-beard,
    Thank you, I will go for pad change, little screws and me don't get along.

    Kind regards.

    liamo