TShugars

I own several computers but it is my fiance's Gateway 610-S that has recently died. We press the power button, nothing happens. Unplug power and plug it back in, the blue LED flashes for a split second but nothing works.

My fiance uses this computer for a home-based business. So I setup my laptop for her to use until we can find a resolution to her problem. But I need, right now, to get her hard disk out so I can temporarily change it to a slave drive and mount it in one of my other computers to access some files that are essential for her work, (she is a Medical Transcriptionist so there is a rather urgent need here...doctor's at hospitals are waiting for their reports.)

The problem is that I have no idea where to locate the hard drive on this All-In-One computer. I found the trap door for the memory and one other device that I did not recognize but I don't want to have to totally disassemble this computer just to extract a few files from the hard disk.

And, unless I pay $60 for a half-hour of a support call, Gateway is of little or no help with this. Does anyone know a site where I can find a diagram of where the hard disk for the Gateway 610-S is located.

Ultimately, we will probably have to send this computer back to Gateway (probably 2,000 miles away in Texas) so that is another reason why I don't want to be any more intrusive into this system then I absolutely have to be. There techies tend to frown on people who take matters into their own hands. So I just want to get the hard disk out for a short time and put it back in before shipping the system for repairs.

Any help finding Gateway 610-S diagrams would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Terry