Hard Drive Transplant

[kurosen]

I figured you guys might get a laugh from this.

 

My boss came to me with a friend of his today and needed files from the friends old hd moved to a new one in a new comp. The problem is, the old hd was sitting in an old dell :ph34r:

 

As a few of you may know, Dell loves to make life miserable for people when opening up their computers, so naturally I gave up on trying to pull out the old hd even though all the screws were out and it still didn't budge (the assembly has it locked in somehow). Now you may ask what the hell I did to move those files over to the new system... I'm sure Taz would be proud of my solution, in the end I rigged the old HD as a slave and loaded the new system to XP to transfer the files. My answer:

[Lord_Pistachio]

Hey, why not?

 

I know what you mean about the Dell HD. I've seen how they have those in there, and luckily, I've never tried to get one out. I can't even begin to imagine how you would do it, short of taking a crowbar to the thing. Stupid Dell.

[spathalogic]

Try taking off the front plastic panel; in my old dell case there were screws behind the front panel that I had to unscrew .

[henbenley]

In my 3 year old dell the hard drive came out without any trouble at all, you just needed to push in 4 little tabs all at once, so yea it was sorta a pain, but not if theres more than one person there to help.

[anthony]

good job kurosen!! now that is some inovative skills

[TheSternMystic]

Tell me the model, and I garantee you I can tell you how to get it out.

[Kamikaze_Badger]

Don't you own a trusty old Dremel ?

 

 

 

 

 

Dremel, the one tool that's actually worth the investment.

 

 

[Nerm]

hmmmm I have never had a problem getting dell HD's out.