opening seagate expansion hard drive enclosure

[saimike]

hi there,

bought a Seagate Expansion 2TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive ST320005EXA101-RK - Retail some time ago (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148503).

now i want to take it apart so i can use the hard drive in my pc. unfortunately, i dont see any screws or the like ... anybody know how to take it apart?

tried emailing seagate.com and looking through their knowledgebase but it wasn't very helpful.

 

[de8212]

I had a freeagent 500GB external that was always giving me issues. Took it apart and just put the internal drive inside my PC and has been almost a yr now with about 350GB full and zero issues.

I couldn't get your link to work but I googled the model # for mine and was able to take it apart. Something like "seagate freeagent model#### removal" and there were posts from another forum with pictures.

 

[corkyg]

Your link has been hi-jacked. Please fix or delete. Seagate Freeagents have been around a couple of years. This video may help.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIs3Pz15OFU

 

[saimike]

its actually a Seagate Expansion 2TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive ST320005EXA101, not a freeagent ... there's plenty of info to remove the hdd from a freeagent, but not from the expansion

even the seagate forums weren't useful ...

 

[13Gigatons]

I found this: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091127182554AASuaWC

 

[corkyg]

And this . . .

http://www.instructables.com/id/Disassemble-Seagate-External-Harddrive/