How to remove a Hard Drive

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From National Tropical Botanical Garden
Chipper W.
Kalaheo, HI USA

Toshiba MK6021GAS external mobile disk

Unable to access the drive. Drive was working fine until the USB cable was accidentally removed while it was writing data to the disk. When you plug the cable in now it powers up but does not appear to have a FAT on it anymore. It asked you to format the disk. The recovery attempts include:
- Tried hooking it up via a different disk controller.
- Tried mounting using a Linux Mount command.
- Tried a raw disk dump using DD

After recovery:

Thank you for the data recovery operation you performed on my external hard
drive. Thank you for the prompt and excellent service.

From Raju G.
Lusaka, Zambia

Hitachi HTS421280H9AT00 laptop disk

After recovery:

Dear Data-R-Us team.
Thank you very much, I have received the new Hard Disk, I could see my data... Once again thanks for your efforts, well done!!!

From Dane R.
Corvallis, OR USA

IBM IC25N040ATCS04 laptop disk

Failed in BIOS or CMOS. Drive spins up on power on but fails to be recognized by bios. No head slamming noises. Failed one morning when house was cool. That afternoon, tried again and booted fine. Wrote off some data to CD but had a system hang when connecting to a large backup drive. Had to power down and it has never booted since. I was mfg engineer for HP laptops and have recovered many drives myself. Even opening them sometimes. I uncovered the hidden screw, thinking I might open this one, but decided against it - It has NOT been opened. I suspect a firmware chip on the board has failed.

After recovery:

Thank You very much for what appears to be a near perfect recovery.

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Apple Laptop Hard Drive Removal Instructions

If you want remove the Apple laptop hard drive, we recommend that you allow a qualified service person to do it. Especially, if your computer under the warranty.

Hard drive removing from Apple notebook will void the warranty, and it's always some risk that you may damage the computer.

You may find on the web the manuals made by MAC enthusiasts, with detailed instructions how to take apart the whole computer to reach the hard drive.

Try searching online something like "iBook G4 Hard Disk replacement" (use with quotation-marks for exact phrase search)

Before you start make sure you have all tools for this operation. For example, to take apart iBook G4 you will need
√ T8 Torx screwdriver, Philips medium screwdriver
√ Small (both Philips and regular) screwdrivers
√ A very big screwdriver, in order to open the shell

You have to be brave to make such thing to your computer (taken from non-official online manual for old iBook 500):

What's inside your apple notebook

Do not forget to remove the bracket and a connector bar from the hard drive, if they used on your model.

Keep them for the new drive installation.