Monday, June 11, 2012

How to Remove the Hard drive from an HP Desktop

Anyone who has been in the military knows that the contracted movers are not always successful at transporting your household goods undamaged! Our last move back in October resulted in some damage to several items totaling to $1,491! One of the damaged items was our HP desktop computer and monitor. Apparently the truck driver said they drove through Hurricane Irene. Praise the Lord we were fully reimbursed 2 weeks ago! One of the neighbor children asked for the broken computer to try and work on. Mind you this particular child has told me how he is going to jump different backyards to escape the police.....with that being said I agreed under the condition I would take the hard drive out =)

 Of course I have never removed a hard drive before. I honestly didn't even know what it looked like inside of the CPU. Can you take a guess and figure out where I learned about hard drive removal....? You to the Tube....lol =) Some one once told me Youtube is a dangerous place....I never got it though....
 This was fun for all my boys I gave everyone a screw driver and we located the hard drive.

 We began unscrewing many things including the fan to get to the hard drive.
After about an hour of unscrewing and pulling we found there was a button on the hard drive box that you push down to pop the hard drive out and it even had a picture of it right on the box.....

Then finally success!


2 comments:

Rhonda said...

this is funny! and you know taking things apart is usually easy. the putting them back together gets tricky though :)

Kelly Logan said...

Yes after we were done with it I would have felt bad even selling it on Craigslist for parts because there was water damage to it too! But the neighbor kids along with one of the moms boyfriends supposedly fixed it....I have yet to see if they really did !