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HP SSD upgrade nightmare ends up in broken SSD that somehow died

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So I got a new SSD, cloned my stuff and opened my laptop to be met with that shit, tried a bunch of shit, all sizes of screw driver, rubber band, pliers, nothing worked. It started to look way worse

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And after that I gave up, I put the thing back together and opened the laptop to be greeted with a "fuck you" message, looked into the bios and no discs showed up 

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So I had enough and decided to drive to the nearest HP service centre, which ended up being some mom and pop repair shop that somehow got an HP authorisation, with only the pop being at work today.

 

So he looked at the thing and said "the SSDs corrupted" wtf does that mean kobe bryant 

 

Like all I did was open the back panel, disconnect the battery, go on a war with that screw and then put it back together, how that even works.

 

So after he opened the laptop and he looked at the screw and tried all the screw heads he had and said, "it's stripped, there's no way to remove it", then he asked do you mind the old SSD being broken ? I said nah and he went all in with his plier pulling the thing out and it indeed broke the SSD 

 

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So the SSD doesn't work, it's bent a bit and broken from one corner, thankfully the new SSD which I cloned went on and booted perfectly like nothing ever happened, I was planning to use this as an external linux drive, with the USB enclosure but I don't know if it's possible to fix it. So I just lost more cash and stuck with a broken SSD and an enclosure with no use, all for 500gb extra storage than what my laptop came with.

 

I'd love some theory on why the old SSD decided it doesn't exist anymore after I touched it's screw and if there was anything I can try to necromancer it 

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Did you disconnect the battery, before you tried to do anything to the SSD?
And the screw wasn't that bad in the first picture, you had the right size PH bit right?

You should have cut a notch in the screw, if you accepted ripping it out, well good luck, it’s probably dead.

   
 
 
 
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how the hell did you manage to bend an SSD and rip components off in the process of removing a screw?

 

also, from the looks of that screw, you appear to have screwed up at least one step of the instructions provided in your status update...

 

perhaps stop blaming your own two left hands on HP?

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30 minutes ago, kokosnh said:

Did you disconnect the battery, before you tried to do anything to the SSD?
And the screw wasn't that bad in the first picture, you had the right size PH bit right?

You should have cut a notch in the screw, if you accepted ripping it out, well good luck, it’s probably dead.

Yep I disconnected the battery, I had the right size PH bit which went in perfectly on all the other screws on it, I just tried turning it once it didn't work then tried plier and rubber band

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6 minutes ago, manikyath said:

how the hell did you manage to bend an SSD and rip components off in the process of removing a screw?

 

also, from the looks of that screw, you appear to have screwed up at least one step of the instructions provided in your status update...

 

perhaps stop blaming your own two left hands on HP?

I didn't bend the SSD, the old guy at the service centre did, and yea I screwed up every suggestion online and on the status update, also what the hell am I supposed to do it came like that from factory, according to a bunch of reddit posts it seems like I'm not the only one who faced itScreenshot_20250622_155928.thumb.jpg.bdb86eb4aa07e65e7dd70067a336248c.jpg

Seems like everyone who touches it strips it 😭

 

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