How do I get the hard drive out of the tower of my crashed PC?What exactly am I looking for? Who do I go to if I want to get data off the hard drive?
look at the back of the computer, look at the edges around the inside of the case your looking for screws or spinners where finger turn them remove them than the side panel should slide back towards the back of the case. look inside the case locate dvd player, follow it down come to square or oblong device ribbon cable, ribbon cable will have 16 pins about 3 inchs wide, if hard drive had sata cables little 1/2 wide with L shape connector, look at the case, look where the hard drive is mounted and find the screws that are holding the hard drive in place., you are going to remove the screws there maybe 2-4 screws holding the drive in place,. remove power connection and hard drive connection than pull out the drive. now getting infomation off the drive is alot of work go on line hard drive removal device, esata or sata with usb connection and power supply to run hard drive software to back up stuff you want. if you need more help email me thru this site.
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