How to open a Maxtor One Touch 4 Plus (External Hard Disk)

Well after we tryed searching in the web how to open it so we could fix the disk we never actually find any good tutorials, so we decided to show you guys how to open it, Enjoy =) (At Your Own Risk, ive made this a lot of times and my hard drive is still working)

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[captainamericafdub]

Thank-you very much. I know you had a choice - thanks for using English :-) What an effort to take this thing apart. Couldn't have done it nearly as clean without your video.

[potorontono]

@captainamericafdub believe me we only had writen instructions on how to dissasemble it, thaths why I decided to make this video, glad it helped :)

regards,

[ruchanziya]

What is the disk inside these boxes? IDE or SATA?

[potorontono]

@ruchanziya is a sata hd

[gengstapo]

Manage to upgrade frm 500 to 1.5TB, thanks!

[potorontono]

@gengstapo you are welcome!

[yoivansinner]

hey, realmente me ayudo bastante tu video, gracias.

[viktor718]

Thanks!!! You really saved me with this video, thought I was going to have to rip the case apart.. much nicer to do it this way.

[ncdave4life]

Thank you for this, it was very helpful to me!

[ScienceG]

Thank you for this guide, it helped a great deal!

[photopros1]

Hey one day my drive stopped working and i noticed that the 2 metal squares on the circuit board is a little burnt could the circuit board be the problem?

[ViLo7]

Great video !!!