{"id":6713,"date":"2023-10-04T19:22:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T23:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=6713"},"modified":"2023-10-05T13:43:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T17:43:31","slug":"one-tiny-screw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/tinkered-with\/one-tiny-screw\/","title":{"rendered":"One tiny screw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been planning to swap out the 256 NVMe drive for a 1tb drive. This should be quick and then I\u2019ll have more storage on my desktop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I dropped the tiny screw into the PC. And it was lost to another dimension. I scoured the floor and desk and everywhere nearby with a magnet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It must be inside the computer. I worried about it wedging itself between the motherboard and case. Or getting wedged into the power supply and shorting it. All of the worst case scenarios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I removed the optical drive. Then the drive cages. I unplugged everything. Then unscrewed and removed the motherboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So\u2026 I resolved myself to it being gone forever and went to work putting it all back together. I powered it on before I put <strong>everything<\/strong> back in place and screwed the last screws in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I grabbed the external hard drive, and the cables to plug it all back in and power it on to continue the restore of data with a temporary screw holding the drive in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what do I find? Right under the cords and cables I moved three times and looked over, under and around?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/one-tiny-screw-point.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"629\" height=\"573\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/one-tiny-screw-point.jpg?resize=629%2C573&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Tiny Screw with a screwdriver tip for size comparison.\" class=\"wp-image-6717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/one-tiny-screw-point.jpg?resize=1024%2C933&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/one-tiny-screw-point.jpg?resize=300%2C273&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/one-tiny-screw-point.jpg?resize=768%2C699&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/one-tiny-screw-point.jpg?resize=900%2C820&amp;ssl=1 900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/one-tiny-screw-point.jpg?resize=1280%2C1166&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/one-tiny-screw-point.jpg?w=1310&amp;ssl=1 1310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">One tiny screw.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s plan. I\u2019ve been planning to swap out the 256 NVMe drive for a 1tb drive. This should be quick and then I\u2019ll have more storage on my desktop. Then I dropped the tiny screw into the PC. And it was lost to another dimension. I scoured the floor and desk and everywhere nearby with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1415],"tags":[1601,1602,1280],"class_list":["post-6713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tinkered-with","tag-hardware","tag-screw","tag-tinkering"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/one-tiny-screw-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1286&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6713"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6719,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713\/revisions\/6719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}