Removing a Perpendicular Hard Drive

[Anduril]

So finally got around to attempting to rescue an old hard drive from a computer. After taking a closer look at the body, I see that the hard drive isn't 'flat' like all the tutorial videos I've seen. Not sure if I'm able to remove the right side of plate as well.

Any advice is appreciated.

[Anduril]

Scratch that, figured it out myself right after posting of course.

[DownInFlames]

So how did you do it?

Think of people in the future with the same issue.

[Anduril]

Hah, I was just going to replace everything with 'nm' until I thought about something like that.


Turns out I had to unscrew the bits within the left circle and pushed to eject on the right one.

You're welcome future Internet people.
Possibly including myself again.

[ricosuave]

That is a HP m9450f!

I have the same one