Thank you SO MUCH for this video. Yes this was tough but I went slowly paused the video at least 20 times. Very carefully marked each hole and each screw. Even took pictures along the way to help me re-assemble. Worked like a dream. Installing Windows back onto a new SSD now. Thanks again for taking the time... YOU ROCK

You are so calm when you do this. lol. Everything I would have to remove would be followed by a 5 minute rant about why it was designed this way.

thumbs up for the 80's porno music

Holy SHIT!!! This guide worked. It took me 30-45 minutes for me to get to my Hard drive. Why so long? I spent a good amount of time trying to pull/find what screw I forgot to remove that made it take forever. WTF DELL!!! How come the other Brands are easier to get into?

Thank you for this vid. I swapped out my dying hard drive for a solid state and wouldn't have been able to do so without your tutorial. Had a few screws leftover and the power button assembly got bent but all is good now. Once again, thank you.

Excellent. Got through a thorough fan and cooling system cleaning in about 10 minutes!! Thanks!!

Make sure to remove the two screws under the battery! Otherwise you will never get the top panel off!!!!!!

@profwaggstaff

8 жыл бұрын

YES. That made all the difference. I would have broken it otherwise

"You must clear yourself of static before handling hard drive" *Proceeds to dismantle laptop on largest source of static in entire home*

thanks soo much man. you helped me through it with no problems. great job!

Really appreciate this vid, thanks. Saved me much frustration and wasted time.

Thank you sir for posting this .. there’s a couple more screws on mine that I had to remove I guess the engineer went back to the drawing board and added a few to really piss us off.. it’s a puzzle but it works if you go slow ...plus there’s a screw holding my hd drive bay in ..... finally got my ssd drive installed and more ram now she’s running fast and cooler Thanks you sir may I have another

How does one clear themselves of static working on shag carpet?

@drewbocop

8 жыл бұрын

+Paul Fabing Beat me to it, lmao

@onlycodered

6 жыл бұрын

Bahahaha I couldn't stop laughing when I noticed that.

Thank you. Good video. I ran into an extra screw underneath the motherboard that was holding the hard drive to the motherboard. No bigs. By that time I was home free!

I appreciated this video for the sole fact that it showed the poor design of this Dell system. I was trying to extract the hard drive from one of these systems that no longer functioned and was not worth fixing. In my opinion, the hard drive should have been as easy to replace as the memory.

Use this video as a basis for doing the work, but not as a complete or accurate guide. Several key points are glossed over, in particular, removing the keyboard. There are 4 clips at the upper edge of the keyboard (nearest the screen), if you look directly downwards you will see them. Use a narrow screwdriver to push into and then pry underneath those clips one at a time to release them. If you try to pry the keyboard up from the rear (trackpad side) you'll damage it. Once released the keyboard pivots up from the rear- there are tabs that hold it in place. The facia that surrounds the keyboard (that contains the trackpad and power etc buttons) also snaps into place, from the front. Be sure you removed every screw from the back (total of 15 including 2 under the battery and 2 inside the CD drive), then start at the front edge, get under it with with something slim that won't damage the plastic and gently pry up, releasing the clips one at a time, working your way back. Also, the hard drive is held in by 3 screws from the top, but one screw is threaded in from the bottom into a captive brass nut. You need to hold the circuit board up and unscrew that screw before the drive can be pulled off of it's plug. No doubt Dell did that to keep the HDD in place during assembly. It is shown but only in passing, that the ribbon cables are held to their connectors with small black hinged levers. Use a fingernail or small sharp tool to pry them up, then those ribbon connectors come right out- re-assembly is the opposite- make sure they're fully seated, then push the black lever back down until it snaps. Finally a caveat. The top parts of this computer are made of really cheap flimsy plastic that will snap if you look at it. The facia surrounding the screen on mine snapped in my laptop bag a week after I got it, and that flexible top cover twisted and allowed my display to crack when I opened it too quickly/ forcefully, which I just replaced. All of the little clips that hold the keyboard and top cover on are made of that plastic and will snap off with little provocation. The base is reinforced with cast aluminum, considerably stronger. All in all a great video to give you a glimpse into what you're getting into when you crack it open, before you start. Start to finish it took about 15 minutes, thanks to this video. Once you know which screws to remove, you can whip them out in no time. I would have gone much more slowly if I had to figure it out from scratch. My one error was not re-connecting the speaker wire plug- got it all back together, SSD install and data migration went perfectly, but no sound. D'oh! Re-opened it, took 3 minutes since I knew how.

Thank you very much. Your video was really helpful.

Thank you so much for the video! Tremendous help!

Thanks for the video. Top was harder and hard drive had a screw to take out that must be unscrewed from underneath. Put it all together and the machine does not turn on, any ideas?

Wow my older laptops were always so easy to remove the hdd. These "slim" form factors these days have complicated things! But, thanks! Really helpful.

@skip741x3

4 жыл бұрын

This chunker is Far from being slim bro! and yeah, its a pain in the butt to do it..ive did it b4 ./.

A thks from Brazil man, it helped me o lot.

Thanks your video helped me earn $120 replace HD with reformat

Thank you very much! Very helpful!!

question you tell us to clear ourselves of static but you do not use a static cloth to put the laptop on .. no static strap and you are doing it on a carpet.. like a electrician wiring a panel while in a tub full of water

Thank you for this tutorial!

You safed my day..!! Go bless

thanks for the tutorial, my n4110 had a heat (damn hot) problem after i play some games it happened just a few day ago. do you have any idea what may cause it?

Two screws in the battery compartment to release the palm rest /keyboard frame.

@jsl151850b

8 жыл бұрын

Also eject the SD Card or dummy card.

Thanks for posting this. What a mess. At least I could attempt this if I wanted thanks to this video.

Great tutorial. I did this swap this afternoon, and have two things to note: 1. The keyboard has clips on the upper edge that can be released with a small screwdriver for easier removal. 2. The top took more work to come off for me, not the simple pull like in the video. Maybe yours has been removed a few times? 3. *IMPORTANT* -There a screw holding the hard drive in place that has to be accessed from underneath. You have to lift the motherboard up and sneak a screwdriver in there to get it.

One of my important screws on the disk drive is stripped. What should I do

Got this one I'm working on done, but this is absurd. Most laptops I've worked on in the past have a slot on the side or underneath the machine where you can just slide the drive out after releasing two screws. I'm hating Dell right now.

@NazmusLabs

7 жыл бұрын

I had a 2010 laptop that I also had to completely take apart just to upgrade the HDD to an SSD.

Thanks. It was usefull for me.

Thanks for the video, I need to replace the crappy network card on my laptop now though. wish me luck :/ and gotta say, love the shoes, I have a couple pairs of my own :P haha. Keep up the good work!

I watched close to try and see where the wireless card was and failed, so it must be under the mobo and I would need to completely remove it? I tried to find a vid for that but none for the N4110 that I see.

Thanks alot for this video dude.. kudos! :)

Mine had a sealed locking screw labeled M21 preventing removal of the drive. It looks like the screw is sealed with a locking adhesive!

Agreed, remove from the top, where those four little indentations are. Removing it from the side like that will bend it.

Thanks for this video .

Thanks for the video.

Thanks! My friend ask me to help her to change the Hard Drive. But after I see your video. I have a decision. I will not buy Dell laptop in the future!

Worked for me, thanks

and I love that ring. hey try rubbing it all over the solder points.

Thanx man, thanx alot😍😍😘😘

Wow, thanks dell for not giving us a drive bay we can reach... Dell can be pretty irritating with their efforts to keep people from upgrading their own systems. Not that it is going to stop me, but it made a simple job into a complex pain.

Thank for your tutorial sir.. don't need a dell technician .. save costs .. TQ.. :)

Thanks for this tutorial. After watching this i understand how this laptop is a so crappy that it cost me only $25. lol .

very helpful!

Horrendously difficult for this kind of operation (deliberately, which is obvious). Given the location of the disk, it could have easily been designed as a slide-in component.

Um, what exactly am I looking at when I hit pause at around 4:57 - 4:58?

Good tutorial :)

good taste in music. this crappy old laptop in my basement has to be taken care of

@jamesdelo3031

6 жыл бұрын

Andy Tingan Yang did you have successful in putting in a SSD? My dad has had this collecting dust and I wanted to use it because of the disc slot

Thank You!

I have buy this laptop for 1 mounth. But now i have problem with bsod (blu screen). And the message is: atikmpag.sys. when i turn off ati radeon amd device the laptop is normal but nothing vga. Anybody can tell me what hapen in my laptop? Is the vga card broken or something? Help me please...

thank you. awful by Dell terrible design. but you explain so well. ty!

can it put ssd and hdd ? i mean does it got two slot ?

My laptop was trashed anyway but one big word of caution, at 2:29 where he removes the top plate it did not just lift right out, I got the tabs out on the front and sides but could not easily get it to "slide" out near the back. Ended up breaking the hinges of the screen by accident. So for those who are simply trying to "replace" a hard drive in this computer be very careful lifting that top plate off. I don't know what I did wrong being how he just skipped over that whole part and made it looked as it if just easily slid out. Not the case with my n4410. Just saying...

@justinbeamon6624

6 жыл бұрын

dcobbism Duddde exactly it was kinda shitty how he didn't include that. I'm doing it right now and it sucks

thanks for this

thanks

Great tutorial, but one thing. I can't get the darn palm rest off. It is stuck at the back between the hinges. Any tips for this? This rotten laptop is the worst disassembly I've ever seen -- even for a Dell. I've disassembled dozens of these, usually it takes 5 minutes. I've spent the past three hours with a friend trying to get the palm rest off. About ready to use the thing as a frisbee.

My laptop beeps five time. It doesn't start up. What the solution?

Where is the ram cards I need to replace them Please Help!

OK, this is not a real easy job, I expected the HD to be behind that back panel. no such luck. If you decide to do this job, watch BOTH top videos here AND read this: 1. There are two screws in the battery compartment that must come out, they hold the "top" of the computer on along the screen edge. I don't think that top ever just lifts off, you do have to work around it with two or three straight blade screwdrivers, one needs to be tiny to get started. 2. There IS a hidden screw from the underside of the hard drive, The edge screws on the drive hold it to a mount frame. 3. The keyboard came out easily for me but DON'T try to pry up the front (space bar) edge. Pry around to the near screen edge / hinges edge. it lifts at the back, pivots up and then long fingers slip out from under the front (near the touch pad) edge. 4. Lots of plastic snaps to get the top off, BUT if it wont come off you've missed a screw somewhere. Again, TWO screws down in the battery box. 5. I took out the fan, that probably helped the motherboard lift up. There is a single screw hidden under the ribbon cable that holds the fan down. Got the fan out? Clean off the blades and the cooler fins. Be patient, keep track of the screws, you can get it done. I used an HSTG (??) HD from Amzn, $50 bucks for 500 GB, 7200 RPM. I'm not sure 9 mm vs 7.5mm thick matters, but it handles 9 mm.

ive done this teardown b4 on this dell and its THE Absolute worst example of absence of forethought from dell in design.. who in their right mind would bury the hd so deep in the structure to need this much dissssembly to just swap a drive?

Firs time i got this model and wanted to point out ine thing, most of keyboards have to be removed from the top en you did it wrong. Use a flat srew driver to lift up the keyboard on top of these keys: Esc, F4-F5, F11 & Del. I did with my nails (not too long because i cut it every 2 weeks or so).

wait a sec - you must have disassembled and reassembled this before you did this video and put some of the screws back wrong. There are 5 "B M2.5x5" screws in the top bezel under the keyboard: 4 through black plastic and one through grey metal. You show taking out 2 from the bezel and 3 of those from under the bezel, those being the incorrectly replaced ones. I only mention it because it may be confusing to those opening this case for the first time.

My model is the same, but the hdd seems to be soldered to the mobo. It won't come off. After 2 hours I gave up. Selling for parts.

@pacificpaging1772

9 жыл бұрын

There is 1 more screw that was not shown in this video holding the hard drive to the motherboard, you need a really tiny screwdriver to get to it, it's on the side of the hard drive that's facing you (not the backside)

@ironcarvel

9 жыл бұрын

Thanks, man, but I already dumped the laptop. It was a good video, though.

You made removing the cover seem to simple, but trying to remove the part near the screen was too diffiicult that i feared i would break something trying harder. You definitely should have showed how thats done in at least a bit more detail. Besides that though, great video.

this helped me alot why in hell do they have to make it so difficult like that

i wonder how many end users dell inspiron customers got pissed in terms of hdd disambly. I encountered lots of end users complaining in removing some components of the system. how much more in inspiron.. good thing i was not under inspiron department back then ^_^

Dell made the N4010 difficult to replace a hard drive..

You have got to be kidding me! 80000 screws later. Come on Dell. Every laptop I have worked on in the past 15 years has had max 5 screws to remove the HDD. Holy crap.

Is that the only way to access to the hard drive?, I mean there isn't an easier way to do it?

For me, it´s a bad Dell Project because the technicians need spend more than 15 minutes only for remove and reinstall the HDD. Who has this engineer as your friend, don´t need any kind of enemies!!!

good

Thank you very much. Your video was really helpful I WOLD SENT THE ENGNEER TO PRISON FOR THIS VERY BAD ENGNIREN,,,,

@markruby8480

9 жыл бұрын

They did it on purpose so you send it in to them so they can make money replacing it for you.

I need to get in there to fix my fan but forget it. This laptop is old and I need a new one anyway.

@radbluemachine9599

7 жыл бұрын

old? old your ass , this laptop is the best ever , hiper super fast , i love my n4110 , i would nevere change it for other one newer , i dont care how hard is to remove the hard drive :)

so basically i have to trash my laptop just to remove my hard drive this is fucking bullshit what was the engineer thinking placing hd so deep in the core of laptop he gonna burn in hell for doing this

I guess inserting a screw-on hdd cover underneath the laptop would have made this laptop too expensive to manufacture for the targeted price point.

goooooooooooooooooooood ...........

there can be a static charge created accidentally by the carpet there mister computer tinkerer sir.

I'm screwed :/

Worst Laptop is Dell . Worst Engineering placed HDD in so typical ...

@dono624

4 жыл бұрын

They do it on purpose, they don't want to make it easy for you to upgrade your system because they want you to just buy a new one.

Holy fuck, I have an HP and Acer and all you do is unscrew the back cover and pop the drive out, here is like fuck man.

Anyone else calling bs on the "now simply lift the lid"? Mine is wedged in tighter than a gnats ass stretched over a rain barrel! I had to give up because I thought I was breaking something!

yes its and only way. Dell at its best.

I just did this . and put it back together. and now the power won't turn on.

@jasonhaney61

7 жыл бұрын

Floyd Johnson ha ha dumbass

I was going to install an SSD in this machine; even as a tech - I ain't got time for that. :(

Kudos! What a fucking nightmare, all because of corporate greed. SMH

Working on a carpet, is a no no

I broke a little black wire...cuz like everyone said the designer is an idiot!! It's the black wire that goes to the screen, I guess it got pinched and now idk how I can reattach it?? does anyone have a solution?

I had to quit when you started prying up the keyboard

wrong way to take off the keyboard right there son, there is four prongs on top to push back to remove it much easier

that is no way to remove the keyboard

THE HARD DRIVE IS STILL SCREWED ON THE MOTHERBOARD! AND I STILL HAVE TO REMOVE THE ENTIRE MOTHERBOARD!!! AAAAHHHHHH

I hate this model with the burning passion of 1000 flaming suns. What half-brained, idiot designs a system where you're required to a complete disassembly to get to a part that should be removable in 5 seconds? SERIOUSLY DELL!!

This is a lot of work just to remove the hard drive. I know what computer brand I will never purchase again.

you could break the shit it half or throw it down the stairs and hope the laptop falls apart. Then you might be able to get the HDD out easily. Chances are, it would still be functional. We all know that shit laptop would be better as a brick. :)

My God whoever designed this model for hard drive access needs to have their arms and legs tied to two horses and split apart. Sigh

You have got to be kidding.

please help