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 Jim L.
Top Layer Networks, Inc.
Westboro, MA USA

Toshiba MK4019GAX laptop disk

Drive DOESN'T SPIN; NOT visible in BIOS

After recovery:

Thank you for the quick turn around and amazing recovery results. Fantastic job!
Jim L.

From Jeffrey P.
Cambridge, Iowa United States

Toshiba MK8025GAS laptop disk

Computer had a blue screen error message, then would not reboot.
-Tried to use OS restore disk (to repair), but it could not find OS or hard drive.
-A tech friend looked at it and said that it was mechanical failure (whining or humming noises).
-Took to Best Buy (for warranty) and they determined it was not software related and gave a new drive.
-Sent to another data recovery place (Nationwide Data Recovery in Miami) which could not retrieve any data (they use the wrong drive for parts first, then got the correct model number, but the parts (thermal something?) had the wrong number (he said that there were 8 different types of drives manufactured with the same model number)

After recovery:

Thank you so much for expediting our case! for recovering our data when the others could not help at all. Thanks again for outstanding service.
Jeff

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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.

Hard Drive Removal Instructions for Toshiba Laptop Computers

Toshiba Satellite 1200

Turn the laptop over and remove the battery.

Remove two screws securing the laptop hard drive.

Slide the hard drive to the right to disconnect it from the system board and remove the hard drive.

Unscrew the bracket from the hard drive.

Toshiba Satellite 5105

Turn the laptop upside down. Remove the battery.

Remove one screw securing the hard drive cover and remove the hard drive.

Toshiba Satellite P10 and P15

1. Turn over the laptop and remove the battery.

2.In this model the hard drive is located under the CD/DVD drive and you have to remove it to access the hard drive. The optical drive is secured by one screw. Remove the screw and slide the drive from the laptop.

3. The hard drive is hidden under a metal plate. Remove four screws securing the plate.

4. Lift up the plate and remove it from the laptop.
5. Now you can access the hard drive. Remove four screws securing the hard drive.
To disconnect the hard drive from the connector on the system board, slide the hard drive down.
Lift up and remove the hard drive.

Toshiba Satellite X205 (with two hdd!)
Remove laptop battery.
Remove covers from both laptop hard drives

Slide the left hard drive to the left and remove the hard drive.
Slide the right hard drive to the right and remove the hard drive.

Toshiba Tecra A2

1. Turn over the laptop and remove the battery.

2. Remove the hard drive cover, the cover is secured by one screw.
3. Slide the hard drive to the left to disconnect it from the connector on the motherboard. After the hard drive is disconnected, lift it up and remove from the bay.

Toshiba Portege M600

Turn over the laptop and remove the battery.

Remove two screws and then remove the hard drive cover.

Slide the hard drive to the right and disconnect it from the motherboard.

Remove the hard drive.

Toshiba Qosmio G35

Turn over the laptop and remove the battery.

Remove two screws and then remove the hard drive cover.

Slide the hard drive to the right and disconnect it from the motherboard.

Remove the hard drive.

Toshiba Qosmio

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