Dell: Inspiron 14R-N4010 Hard Drive Replace / Dis-assembly – Part 1

Dell: Inspiron 14R-N4010 Hard drive replace & dis-assembly. My first shot at a how to video. Figured it’d be fun. Not entirely too enthused about how it turned out, I see where I could have done a lot better, and will hope to improve upon in future repair videos. I know. Probably could have done without some crude & foul commentary. But what can I do to inject my own style into my own videos? Also, I do see a few too many repair videos that have no commentary. Music, silence, or written word. As well as, lack dialogue about small details or warnings to watch out for while doing a repair on laptops, which could possibly be easier to destroy, than they are to fix. I do hope this proved to helpful in your repair endeavors. Views & opinions are of my own & do not reflect those of my employer. —————————————————————- Original Youtube Channel: www.youtube.com Google+: plus.google.com Twitter: www.twitter.com Tumblr: just4thefunkofit.tumblr.com Game Trading Zone gametz.com
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mate can i take the cooler fan out without unscrewing the? electronic board??
Here is a link to the dell manual for it, Refer? to page 39 support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins5520/en/om14R/OM_en.pdf
Thanks a million for the video. What a fricken nightmare I have waiting for me tomorrow. I enjoy the occasional curse, keeps? it fun!
A Relative New laptop that you need to dissasemble completly to replace/change the hard drive AVOID THIS LIKE THE? PLAGUE, this was on my list to buy, but i will get something else, thanks for video! ill follow it if i ever get oen of these monstrosities
FUCK? YEA!
thanks for the video, helped me out a lot! also, don’t worry about the cursing, man.? i fuckin loved it
Hmm. Could swore I mentioned some of those points during my 3 videos.
I did forget about the 3 screws by dvd drive on my first go at this. Cracked portion of the frame in that area. I see I forgot to put those screws back when I put? it together the first time.
And I had broke at least one of the clips holding in the ribbon cables. Oops.
Laptops can be very notorious for their soft plastic tabs & their toughness can vary even amongst same models.
This video is pretty good . . . except that we still had hours of frustration. Nothing was said about the three little screws holding the case in on the right side over the dvd drive. We broke part of the side trying to get that off. Also, there is nothing about the fragility of the holding/locking clips for the ribbon(s) on the motherboard, particularly the one for the keyboard! We were in the dark about the? locking clip particularly. This has been the most difficult part!
The engineer who designed this laptop needs to be? fired immediately, but considering that this is Dell they were probably given a promotion (Dell’s complete disregard for reliability is the reason I am forced to hate their junk products). Thank you for making Dell’s miserable process a little less miserable.
Thanks for the video! I glad someone else? feels the same way about dell forethought on design… throw away laptops!!
Thanks, One? Cool Guy !!!!!!
I asked the guys where I bought this from to put an SSD and it is super? fast.
these units are SUCH pains. My wife had an HDD fail and when I realized I had to literally disassemble the whole PC just to get to the HDD? I nearly flipped.
Yes, I replaced the stock HDD which failed with a 120 GB Agility 3 and it works fine.
There is no reason you can’t replace most any modern laptop’s HDD with? an SSD. It gives you a huge performance increase, extends battery life and runs cooler and quieter. If you can foot the bill and don’t mind the outrageously hard (by comparison) swap on this model, I say do it.
can it run call of duty black ops? ?
Thanks for the video. Really helped me when I was changing the HDD out for a friend of mine. Whoever the designer of the laptop was, that person should? really consider a career change.
Thank you for posting the series of three? videos. Saved me from hours of frustration. What a pain in the butt just to change a hard drive. Dell never would have helped this much. Very Well Done. And thanks again!
I see no reason that you shouldn’t be? able to do this.
can i put a SSD into this? I think? my hard drive is gone so I need to replace it… So much positive comments here means I’m at the right place!
I? just used this vid to swap a bad harddrive on this model pc. Someone needs to fire the designer. Thanks!
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hey when you are popping out the top plastic housing after removing the keyboard, etc. but when i put a small screwdriver to pop the? top plastic off it dents and is hard to come out. Any suggestions? I’m trying to get my files off the harddrive and also worried about voiding warranties. thanks so much!
Haha! That’s awesome! Glad to hear I was able to assist where they could not.
That sounds very similar to where the local Geek Squad has referred their customers to my store, because they don’t go anywhere near doing any kind of? repairs that involve the motherboard.