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</span>Ugg. Not fun!<br><br>If you are VERY careful, a cottonswab with cooking oil and a sharpened popsicle stick will remove the sticky tape from the drive tray (first) and then from the drive itself. Basically swap a microscopic amount of oil alond the adhesive joint, let it sit for a minute and gently pry with the wood, repeat, repeat, repeat. Each cycle of this wil loosn about 1/16" . Don't try for more as you run the risk of tearing things up. <br>
<br>I have heard of freezing the tape with "cold in a can" and scraping/prying but I have no experience with that.<br><br>Yes, I do have experience with the oil/wood process. I vowed to dig a new drive tray off ebay after I did it.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/7/24 mute wonder <<a href="mailto:mutewonder@gmail.com">mutewonder@gmail.com</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div>I'd like to swap two laptop hard drives, but they're both stuck in their special, uniquely shaped, removable trays with sticky paper. One is almost completely wrapped in closely fitted, one-sided sticky paper, but otherwise removable from the plastic and metal fittings that comprise the tray. Since the paper is so tight about the HDD, it may be able to fit into the other laptop as is. The other HDD is more problematic, as it's stuck to its metal tray with a sheet of double-sided sticky paper.</div>
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<div>Any ideas how to detach the HDD without damaging it?</div></div>
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