Last year i found external HDD from scrapbox in electronics shop which had 4tb seagate drive inside it didn't work all blocks were bad, i took it out of housing, checked serial number it was like three years passed warranty. I Wrote a letter to seagate asking what could i do with it, they said that Even though warranty ended, they are willing to give me new one, just send them broken one. Sent it to seagate netherlands ,shipping cot me 5 euros, and in one week they shipped me new 4Tb hdd back. Lol basically free.

So glad to see that zener diode do it's job and give it's life to save others. 🙂

Using a bit of flux on your tweezers to pick up SMD components is a great little hack - love it.

The local scrap man has been generous enough to give me broken electronics. I've been repairing a lot of it and sharing the loot with him. I've also been practicing my solder and reflow work on them. I'm not as quick or as good as you but I can definitely feel a lot of improvement. Donor boards are excellent if you can get them folks, and the bonus is you get free chips to play with if you're into building electronics.

Data recovery must be one of the most satisfying tasks when successful. Data is so critical, yet people don't back it up often or at all.

The soldering job on those replaced resistors is amazing, You'd never tell they've been replaced :) Amazing work as always!

I'm impressed. This is the first time that I've caught up with your channel. A few months back my grand-daughter also had a faulty portable Seagate 2TB drive that happened to stop working while it was plugged into the USB port of an HP Laptop which interestingly also died at the same time. I'm an old school technician when I started out in the business all radios and TVs had tubes. So, I was reluctant to tackle the HDD myself, I rang a few repair shops in Australia (where I live) and was quoted from 900-1500 (A$) to retrieve the data. I guessed that the Laptop must have put a lot than five volts out of it's USB port to the HDD. Poor laptop design? Luckily for me the Seagate HDD was still in warranty and without hesitation Seagate transported it from Australia to the Netherlands and back for free, great service! So my grand-daughter was able to get back her valuable data and a free new HDD to boot. Keep the videos coming.😀

We did a great job, well done Alex

If 2 resistors in paralel measure open circuit the both of them are open. Of course you know that. I just found it funny that you kept testing both.

Fly swatter now sold on Northridgefix

Alex is smiling thinking like, "Yes, yes hard drive spin and Windows tone = $$$". Good Fix Man!

That steel brush is magic though!

What an amazing feeling that Data is seen again. Awesome man!

You can tell that man is so proud of his work when he succeed and fixes something he smiles from the hart. Good job man.

Alex, we are on the road to 300k. Please save something very hard to fix for this anniversary. We need the biggest "lets plug it in ---- and it works!" smile that we have ever witnessed.

That fine steel wire brush is amazing!

Watched many of your videos and used to live in Northridge for a few years in the early 2000s. You make fixing them look so easy. Have a couple of hard drives with the same issues. So now I can see if I can try to fix them.

I watched a lot of repair learning videos, in various fields, but I do not feel the joy of knowing until I see your method of analyzing and solving faults. many thanks to give to you sir 👍

I had to restrain myself to jump-for-joy Alex, when you fixed the HDD and were able to see the drive and all its files on the screen. One of my big fears center around the loss of data from external back-up HDDs. I always thought that 'Data-Recovery' had to do with complicated dis-assembly and analysis of the disks, so I learned something new again today and now I'm not so anxious about my external HDDs breaking down. This video has contributed to my 'Stress-Reduction'. Who would have thought...lol 🙏👍😄

I don't understand much about electronics but watch because I feel happy whenever you get something fixed and working. Nice work as always!

In similar case I used a thin wire instead of zero-ohm resistor.

No no no, that is NOT flux. That is the gunk from the cooking diode condensing on the PCB. It is VERY classic to see this from diodes and other semiconductors when they go boom. I repeat: IT WAS NOT WORKED ON!

Great to see the smile on your face when the fix works!. Nice one Alex!.

I like your laugh when you succeed. Shows true passion and love of your work.

8:38 Alex finally finds a use for that solder sucker...

Good job with this fix. A failing hard drive is one of my fears because that's where I store all my data. I do have an external hard drive for back ups but still it was great to see an HDD gets saved. I'm starting to get hooked on all your videos. I might probably learn a thing or two from these fixes.

i enjoy watching masters work. Especially masters with a sense of humor. Thank you for letting us watch over your shoulder!

i am an IT guy who wants to know more about electronics, ive been watching your videos almost daily, my target is to know everything about computers and electronics

Another happy customer! Great job Alex as always!

I really like the cadence of your speech. Very easy to follow what you are saying. Customers have no excuse to not hear what you say.

Just a quick note. The order I placed last Sunday arrived today in perfect condition. Thank you very much.

That just be so satisfying to successfully complete a fix like this and let the customer know their data is secure.

I love your house hunting series Alex, hope you'll find one that suits your needs. I am also a big fan of your repair works, all are amazing, i've been looking forward to your new uploads! I am also starting a repair shop business at home, and hope someday to have a great shop like yours😊 Goodluck and Godbless!

Great video, very informative and educational. I just wish there was somebody as skilful as you in London!

I don't get much time due to work and family time but always love watching your videos!

Always learning something new and as I near retirement, want to get back into electronics and have to check out your site. Thanks for another great vid

Excellent job neighbor!!!! - From a fellow Northridge Resident!

new subscriber, retired electronics tech, nice job! amazing little books with parts, far cry from tubes, transistors, surface mounted devices too cool! was use too the big stuff, lol! nice soldering tweezers!!!

Great job .. and the troubleshooting is amazing..and right to the point

Wow, great brush. Nice example.

Just wow Method of your repairing is awesome.

Those resistors are clearly in parallel! If you read “open” on one, *both* are broken

Masterful job as ever! Excellent work

Liked you showing using flux to pick up the tine parts!

Amazing! but in your place, I wouldn't have guessed that we should get the files without the diode(s) 😀

Great video. I'm learning lots. I will take a look at your site for some new equipment.

I’m so upset and envious. Upset I can’t do work like that anymore and envious cause he does such a great job. I’ve been soldering for 50 years now. My dad taught me when I was a kid. Building stuff all my life as an electronic technician. Now? I have essential tremors. Fine work like he’s doing is not possible for me anymore. On the bright side when I TiG weld my beads are gorgeous. Don’t know how much longer I’ll be able to do that though. Moral or the story? Enjoy today, tomorrow might really suck or not even come along.

I am from sri lanka. Colombo. I watch you videos a lot and learned alot. Thank you sir.

You make it look so easy,what a pro

Another satisfying fix Alex.

Amazing work as usual.

your channel is very educational

Lucky fix it was just the fuses on the 12V line. Good one to give me hope when i see customers damaged devices like that and still try to repair them.

its great ur happy face after each succesfully repair! u re a good guy! Best Wishes from Argentina, and Thanks u for share you knowledge! Really Thanks!

Great 👌 repairs 😊

Awesome video. Awesome repair.

I like your videos and this channel. Also appreciate the willingness to share with the world your way how you repair. Good job and keep it up! I have to make a warning at the beginning of the video. The method how you measured the fuses on board. Especially when you measure the second pair of fuses. If one is bad from those two, you dmm will show they are good. Take care with that checking method where two or more fuses are in parallel.

Very nice video. Great fix, nice repair. Thank you gor that video, greets

Such few components to make such an impact. I still love this subject after over 20 years

Your Videos are my new favourite on KZfaq! Just subscribed to this channel.

Awesome work.

Most people that have tried something especially repairs on their own but failed and send it to somewhere else is never going to tell you what they did wrong most likely at least 98% of the time... FAILURE TO ADMIT

Excellent work

Grats on 300k subs

Gz to 300.000 subscribers from Germany ;)

Love this channel Alex!!!

Too wonderful ! :) Thank you !

great job. My first experience with smd was with a hdd. It was too easy for you Alex.

Congratulations. I liked!

back in the IDE hard drive days around late 90's ~ 2002 forgot if it was Seagate or Western Digital or both. We would get hard drives in that would spin up , could not read any data. It was because the bearing for the drive motor had a minute amount of play. What we would do is wrap the drive in plastic then put the drive in the freezer overnight. The next day I would take the hard drive out and plug it in to the IDE cable. Unfortunately wasted time waiting for the computer to boot, 80% of the time we could recover all or part of the data. as soon as the hard drive started to thaw showing droplets ( hard drive out of the PC with longer cables) the sooner would stop reading data, a very few we could refreeze and recover more data. Not in these cases, it always amazed me and it was difficult sometimes not to laugh in the clients face when i went to an onsite for a PC that would not boot/ clicking sound. The client would tell me "well the hard drive had been making strange sounds and clicking for about a month, the computer still booted" i would be thinking you should have called us weeks ago. very few we could find a donner hard drive and swap the mainboard, most that did not work....back when that was possible....most lost all their data.

Woah, great video mate!

Love the content and the outro is awesome

Good job mate 👍

The is the second video I see from this channel and I am getting addicted, its soo cool 🔥

Nice job!!

Nice good job thanks for sharing

Great Job !

Alex, i'd love to see some videos with you using some of the other tools/meters/equip you have that we don't normally see you use. Or maybe some demonstrations (not that you have time lol). For example the items in the background. Thanks bud.

Storage week this week... Good job! :D

I guess I finally understand the use of zero-ohm resistors, they're fuses!

I laughed at 8:37 "What's going on with this fly, I'm trying to be a nice guy, but it's wants to die". It's like a rap lyrics lol

Ahhh I really need to get into electronics repair. I love this stuff

"That's a protection diode, so we do not really need it"

I want to hear last smile with a good job gusture!!

Exellent job sir

Great job bro

Good morning all 🌻🌻😘

I love it more when he repair something relate to PC and mobile

Amazing work. I wonder if I could buy a pair of these hot tweezers. They seem really useful for that kind of job

Well done good fix

man, watching this is mesmerizing. i can only compare it to watching a final drive for the win in the 4th quarter of a divisional game. ok, any nfl game, or college game, whatever i want some tools so i can try. pretty effing cool.

Awesome Alex Good job, Good feeling after you got it fixed for make customer happy That’s what I like see y’all doing that as like Alex does… Better than Factory!! LoL thank for video I never get boring watch your video and other… awesome thanks

thanks

It seems that when Big Boss is away, Alex has more time to make videos ... I kinda like this! Perhaps we need to have a collection for Big Boss's next vacation.

Amazing Work 👍❤️ I hope someday you can make Airpods pro repair too

Superb job yet again i had a samsung drive back in the days of ide interface and it was silent and faster than the maxtors i often bought for builds, the second day there was smoke and a chip on the board was almost on fire i took it back and never bought another samsung again .

He wrote that the PCB is smiling 😊 back at him😆

dont you just love the 5 min jobs that make you money

Wow amazing work, what happen IN remove diode

great man great work hard and Minuit worker