How to remove a Hard Drive

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Mesa, Arizona USA

Fujitsu MHT2060AT laptop disk

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Tracy S.
Bend, OR USA

Seagate ST3120022A external disk

Unable to access the drive. Was connected to a test machine by local IT professional and wasn't able to see in BIOS.

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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.

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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.

How to Remove the Hard Drive from Gateway M275 Convertible Tablet Notebook

Hard drive removal on the Gateway M275 Convertible Tablet Notebook

1. Shut down the convertible tablet notebook, and then disconnect the power adapter.

2. Turn the convertible tablet notebook over, and then remove the battery:

Slide the battery lock [1] to the unlocked position.
Slide the battery release latch [2].
Lift the battery out of the bay [3].

Remove the battery

3. Remove the hard drive from slot:

Remove the two hard drive bay screws [1]
Slide the hard drive kit away from the computer: Pictures [2] and [3]

How to extract the HDD from laptop

Remove the two screws [4] that secure the hard drive to the hard drive kit bracket
Remove the bracket from the failed hard drive [5]

Note: Keep the bracket kit for the new hard drive installation.

After you are done with the hard drive removal you may proceed to placing the data recovery order.