Brewology

Ok so I got this laptop from a friend for free because it didn't work. he told me if I could fix it i could have it so I was like "I know how to fix stuff ill take it " well the only problem with it was that the harddrive was fried. I had three options.

1. Go buy a new hard drive ($100)
2. Take the hard drive out of my junk bin that I got from my old fried laptop. (Not Fun)
3. Take apart my broken external hard drive to see what was inside. (:D)

So I decided to take my external HD apart. I got all the stuff out to find that it's actually just a normal laptop HD. I also learned that usually all laptop hard drives are the same. Another thing I got out of this was the piece that allowed me to connect the hard drive to my computer. I just popped that on and put it in the hard drive that was in my junk bin and I got all the lost files of the hard drive! Then I put the hard drive from the External HD and put it in my laptop.

So out of taking apart my old external that costed me about $60 i got...
-Laptop Hard drive adapter. ($25)
-Laptop 300GB Hard drive ($150)

So that's like a lot of money saved . I love messing with stuff to find goodies. :D:D:D:D

Wow, you got a free laptop, I'd say that was the best thing ever...

anyways, congrats on fixing the hd...

taking apart things is always fun

taking apart my iphone 2g tomorrow

NOOOO!!! Monkey! Don't! It's a trap! Took me about 8 hours to take mine apart and put it back.
Glad you've got it fixed, Fallen! I just had to get a replacement hard drive for mine, too!