Has anyone tried opening their Samsung Series 7 Chronos notebook?

Has anyone tried opening their Samsung Series 7 Chonos notebook? I read that Samsung Series 7 Chronos only lets customers to access the RAM cards but I was wondering if there was someone out there who has opened their laptop and was able to see or remove the HDD. I'm planning to change the 750GB HDD to a Samsung 256GB Solid State Drive 470 Series. I just wanted to know how to get to the HDD.

 

I would like an answer to this as well.

I'm sitting here with my Chronos and an SSD drive, I removed all of the screws at the bottom of the laptop, but now I'm not sure what to do next.

Can anyone give a step-by-step description of how to go about opening it?

 

OK, I guess I was being a little too careful. It opened after I applied a little more force.

1) Remove all of the screws on the bottom of the case
2) Lay the laptop upside down
3) Raise the body up to "open the laptop." The LCD should be on the bottom, and the keyboard is facing you where the LCD would normally be.
4) Carefully slide a slot screwdriver around the outer edge of the base and slowly wench it open as you move the screwdriver around the entire edge. You'll hear little snaps as the case opens up at each point around the edges.
5) Once it's loose all around, you can pull it off easily.

 

nice. was putting it back harder or easier?

 

It's easier. Just line it up and gently pop it back into place.

Out of interest, what made you choose the Samsung SSD? Why not something like a Crucial M4 256GB?

 

I'm not going for the 256 GB anymore but the Samsung SSD 830 Series which is a 500GB SSD.

 

I did it yesterday, and I'd like to confirm that it's quite easy to open the case.
Just remove all the screws and the fake SD card, use your nails or a thin paper cutter to lift the case from the keyboard base and then continue openinng carefully.

The HDD bay is instantly recognisable and it's easy to access it.

Thanks to jhl1989 for the small guide.

 

Did you guys miss this disassembly guide?

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sam...ies-7-chronos-np700z5a-disassembly-guide.html

 

You need to properly search the forum before making a new thread where your question has already been answered.

 

The disassembly guide is for the 15.6" model, but is basically the same for the 14"

 

This thread itself is quite old but someone managed to dig down the pile and find it rather than find the disassembly guide in the sticky list.

John

 

I have and it is quite easy I do recommend using a nylon flat piece for the prying open part so you dont rivet or scratch anything nice. I took some photo's of the i7 I own after it was opened and posted them to Flikr for you. If you have any questions on the hardware I am very familiar with it.

Samsung Chronos Series 7 - a set on Flickr

 

I want to change to HHD SSD. But there are doubts about the connections sata3.
Who would not be changed? Is there sata3? There a real speed increase?
I np700z5a. The photo shows that the labeling hhd sata 3gb/s, which is sata2

 

While the actual HDD they used might be Sata II, the drive bay is definitely SATA III. I swapped out the original Samsung 750GB 5400RPM HDD with a Crucial M4 256GB Sata III, and moved the original HDD to the DVD drive bay.

I get the advertised Sata 3 speeds for my M4 when running benchmarks. Others have reported that the DVD drive bay is only Sata 2 though.

 

Thank you!
Please indicate how you set Crucial M4 256GB Sata III 7mm or 9.3mm?
How to install, without any problems?

 

Only the 7mm drive fits - I had to exchange the 9.3mm because it didn't fit. See here for more info and installation instructions, etc:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/samsung/687673-clean-win7-install-ssd-2.html

 

I want to clone a standard HHD with an adapter, and then install and run the windows. Your opinion is?

 

I'm not sure what you mean by "clone" and then "install" Windows. If you clone, you don't need to install Windows. It's already on the SSD once the clone is completed... The post I referred you to captures the process:

1. Backed all my data, media, my docs, pictures, etc. to an external USB drive and deleted them from the 750GB Samsung HDD. This left 2 partitions: 60GB of Win 7 files and applications on the C drive, and a blank D partition.
2. Defragged, ran CC cleaner, and cloned the HDD to the SSD using the included Data transfer cable and EZ Gig IV cloning CD included with the SSD. It took about 40 minutes to clone and another 40 to verify.
3. Opened up the laptop, removed the Samsung HDD and replaced it with the Crucial SSD.
4. Turned it on and changed the boot order in my bios so the SSD was 1st.
5. It booted to the Win 7 logon screen in about 20 seconds, and everything loaded up in about 5 more!
6. Pulled out the DVD drive and replaced it with the original Samsung HDD.
7. Put everything back together, and then booted up and Optimized Windows 7 for the SSD (TRIM enabled, turned off Defrag, Hibernate, Superfetch and Prefetch, etc.), and verified 4k alignment.
8. Ran benchmarks to verify performance was consistent with that found by SSD review articles I found online (and it is!).
9. Copied all of my data, media, and documents back to my HDD (in the ODD bay) from the external USB.

All-in-all, the cloning process was very smooth and I didn’t encounter any issues – it took approximately 2 hours altogether. I highly recommend it.

 

Yesterday I replaced the standard HDD 500g, at 7mm 256GB SSD Crucial M4.
With container for external drives USB 3.0 copied the old drive and reverse. Everything went very smoothly and quickly.
Then I wanted to return the system to its original state with key F4, but the laptop refused to do so. When F4 is pressed, the screen starts flashing a fully filled inscription Recover .....
Maybe this is normal. I waited 5 minutes and turn off the notebook.
Took a drive restoration, which was Complemented with a laptop and installed a clean Windows. Drivers downloaded from the old HDD. All ended well.
Now I have is on the SSD laptop and have an external HDD.
Thanks for the advice that you gave me.

 

F4 needs to be able to find the recovery partition. Did you copy it to the new drive?

John

 

Explain why I can not boot from an external drive?
In the BIOS boot order appointed. Starts loading and it switches to the internal drive.

 

Disable Fast BIOS Mode on the Advanced page of the BIOS setup (or you can achieve the same by switching off Samsung Fast Boot in Easy Settings). The Fast Boot setting skips checking for other bootable devices. Note that you can also press F10 at the BIOS screen to get a one-time boot menu. (I should note that this advice is based on the Series 9 but I think the Series 7 is the same in this respect).

John