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[@glenharland5287]

You should be very proud of the way you created a living for your whole family, Alex. You are an inspiration.

[@henry55430]

Yeah seriously man. You've come so far and achieved so much. You've won the game. Congrats, Alex. I wish you much success in years to come.

[@nnnnnn3647]

It is dangerous. imagine what will happen if he has an accident or gets sick. Besides, employing a family is typical in countries where family clans rule. It's not really good for society.

[@akahige9626]

@@nnnnnn3647 It can arrive even if it's not his familly, what's that argument ? 🤔

[@Ryan_DeWitt]

@@nnnnnn3647Congratulations, one of the worst statements I have heard on this channel yet.

[@ijvanderuit6505]

That's why you get life insurance..for when the "what if.." happens. Happy for you Alex!

[@ejeckk]

I just adore that little smile you have when you've repaired an item. You seem genuinely happy when you're able to help a customer out. Excellent job, Alex.

[@saladin9645]

yes Is it true but he was happy too for him self , do you know why that smile because when you get tired a lot trying to fix something and you do all your efforts Then in the end, without result, you feel frustrated. Then you stand again, . When you succeed , you feel happy It gives you a feeling of confidence

[@lrmoura]

self satisfaction ...

[@jesusisunstoppable4438]

It's not like he's doing it for free.. He charges for it.

[@ejeckk]

@@jesusisunstoppable4438 Okay. But what's the point you're making?

[@jesusisunstoppable4438]

@@ejeckk Point is and I know for a fact Alex will Agree with Me.. He's happy to fix it, So he will get paid .. So He can live in that 1.8 million $ House and New car. He didn't fix it because he's a nice guy helping someone.

[@phazonclash]

Fixed my first electronic component (a Xonar Essence STX with broken RCA connectors I unsoldered and replaced, with new ones I soldered), thanks to this channel and Alex's tips and I think I did a pretty good job!

[@joseph_donovan]

Reviving and restoring files from a faulty hard disk must be a most satisfying feeling. It is delightful to watch and joyous to see the successful outcome. I salute you and your family! Bravo!

[@aceitalia83]

Some day I will be good enough to work for you, but for now I'm still learning and gaining experience with the help of your videos. Thank you and congratulations on a very successful business.

[@bankrollthedrako5388]

Do more Data recovery videos.we love them

[@bblod4896]

Always a good feeling when a repair works. Thanks for the video Alex.

[@hfatboydth4715]

I’d love to work for your company. But I’m only a student learning at Northridge Fix University. Studying PCB Diagnose & Repair. I learn from Prof Alex & Prof Big Boss…………….. I truly enjoy everything you do Alex! I think I’ve just about watched every video. God Bless and have a wonderful day!!❤

[@HardcoreEngineering]

Watching your Videos heal my soul Keep it up with the Good Job Alex

[@SahilTiwariOnPlus]

micro b 3.0 connector is also compatible with micro USB, the shorter portion is for extra data lanes so in case if we don't have the proper connector we can simply solder a micro usb cable to the longer portion and recover the data at a slower usb 2.0 rate

[@DirtyRobot]

Time is money. I guess he want's that data in a safe place ASAP. It might be a good idea to set up a dedicated server for recovery backups that can handle a wide range of connections.

[@rounakr94]

Not for HDD's of newer generation. You need the extra juice of the usb 3.0 to provide additional power to the hdd. With 2.0 it won't work properly

[@Healcraft]

could also attach a regular female usb 3 connector if you have the cable for it

[@Doman2000]

Yes, if the original problem was only the damaged pin on the USB super speed part of the connector, the customer could have used a regular USB2 micro cable to access the data.

[@georgegonzalez2476]

Way back around 1988 I bought a hard disk for my Mac, all of 65 Megabytes. I shopped around for the best price. Now 1 TB drive costs about $35. That is a cost of about 35 thousandths of a dollar per Megabyte. I paid about $600, or $9 per Megabyte. That was about 3000 times more per Megabyte. And we were perfectly happy.--

[@CR3WSA]

You are an inspiration to so many of us. Thank you so much for sharing your work and excellent techniques. You also help a lot of people realize that this line of work may not be for everyone due to the very high skill level necessary which is great too. Respect! :)

[@limaxmusic533]

Letsgooo! I m so glad to see a sponsorship on your channel! Very very glad!!!

[@MrChrisRP]

Making it look easy, dude. Keep on excelling and once again, no you do not require my permission, and that is not intended haha. It's my nice way of supporting your phenomenal skills. Rock on!

[@robertbartram5632]

another great vid and thanks for giving an insight to your family business i hope that you find other people to help,,,,, we enjoyed our cuppa while watching

[@mobilecare2419]

I would love to work for your company but I am from India. Love watching your videos. Every time there is something new to learn.

[@skyetobar4282]

Beautifull job as per usual Alex, keep up the good work and that great spirit of yours

[@KBVlogTv]

how i wish ill be in your place :) been dreaming to be like you sir :) ive been fixing stuff since i was in highschool.. so addictive watching your vids.. have a great day sir! more power!

[@TheRealFrankWizza]

It's not a matter of wishing. It's more a matter of working.

[@zodiacfml]

congrats on the success of your business. wished I was younger and will work for you, that's nice compensation

[@lawrencemaweu]

Wow, straight to the point and proficient

[@alltechinbox]

When the hair left behind is grey, you know you have a quality repair

[@L1nK79]

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who wants and has knowledge, I wish you luck in finding someone who will be of help to you. it's a pity that I'm not in the USA, I'd be happy to work for you and your company. a big greeting to you and your family. 😊

[@jeroxama5877]

I wish i could learn and do these stuff, the micro soldering and fixing items are just so facinating for me

[@boromoose]

The three words I look forward to hearing every day: “Here we have …”. I know it will be followed by a fascinating demonstration of skilled troubleshooting and repair.

[@me_bee_ste_1355]

Awesome work, great job! 👏

[@mustafababdullah2485]

I sure wish you was in Atlanta 😂 I actually love watching what you do! I do Linux dev for arch and over the years I've had to learn how to also fix hardware. Watching is learning

[@ztechrepairs]

Great video!! I'm stacked with repairs as well.

[@ThriftyToolShed]

Awesome repair Alex!

[@daktrdre]

fantastic work / repair on the drive

[@Bahaa-jaw]

that smile when you heard windows sound , great job

[@R3v3r3ndR33f3r]

you'r great...no nonsense...excellent

[@terrymax5340]

Great job . Perfect 😊

Respect for your good video montage 👌

[@rfr653]

Good job mate 👍

[@bouhlassamohamed1337]

Good job ❤

[@nycdude450]

great job

[@Bluelagoonstudios]

Rofl, seems there are more candidates to learn soldering, same with JTC, what a disaster, but not unfamiliar to me, I get a lot of these for repairs. Where someone tried to "repair" amps or other electronic devices. Great work again, I admire all your work.

[@hinelinen]

I will be emailing you tonight. I do everything and am slow recently. I will send photos of my excellent work as well and all I can do.

[@mathmagics8212]

Thanks for telling pakistan, i do micro soldering, data recovery, flashing firmware using firmware writing boxes (bricked devices), i m a lecturer of mathematics in a government college, also good knowledge in sql, vba, c++, python, watch your videos and learned alot thanks,

[@freelander1794]

Very Nice. thanks

[@CATech1138]

i have done some small work with some crude tools...changing H bridges on N scale model digital command controll (DCC) decoder boards...fun stuff with a $12 soldering iron, have to be quick with the uncontrolled iron to limit the heat transfer yet patient with the fiddly work to get quallity connections without bridging pins....i have learned the Golden Rule of soldering, flex early flux often...

[@treetox]

Love the Sherlock Holmes level of confidence the Boss has, ".. and a black hair... so the person who attempted the repair is a young person...!"

[@mohammadusajidh5152]

That time when seeing the smile 😊 on your face

[@stefanlechner]

Great work, thx

[@Abhishek-C92]

Holy God I just sold this same hdd to the marketplace. Damn I am so safe. But mine hdd has zero bad sectors but toshiba drive tends to heat faster then wd or Seagate. Keep up the good work.

[@warunakangara6791]

You need to sold the middle pin Alex, because it’s need to goodfit connector to the board. Did you use 3 pin connector but original one was 5 pin, manufacturer makes this for customers for durable without loosen. And one more, please use thin tip when applying flux, because lots of flux is dispose..... ❤

[@Muhendisbeyy]

Çok başarılı bir iş için teşekkür ederim ve tebrikler.

[@shemdualos6105]

wow ❤ I have 2tb hdd I wanted to repair but I don't know how. I wish know like that skills. the hdd have a picture and video of memories of my family 😢

[@steviekek]

Great employment opportunity for a hard worker.

[@milentiusgaming]

good on them for having a go, you will never learn if you never try, although it sounds like they didn't mention that they had a go at fixing it which is SUPER IMPORTANT for the person who actually repairs it to know that a repair was attempted so they at least know to check for typical faults such as "young people's hair" haha

[@amldesh]

Good Job 🎉❤

[@demontagemontage]

اشكرك

[@RESIDENTECH1]

cool video got some ideas 👍🏾

[@Riborwahz]

Bro an inspiration 🎉

[@shamsalfaisal]

Came in for repair/ data recovery.

[@Ryan_DeWitt]

Good luck finding a good candidate. Micro soldering and testing skills despite all the tech aren't as common nowadays. Whoever is the lucky guy I believe could literally make as much money as he was physically able to do as I don't think there would ever be a time with your queue where he wouldn't have work waiting. Really good $ if you are skilled.

[@saladin9645]

Unfortunately, if I were there , I would have come to work with you. It's my pleasure . we are similar. Commitment and honesty

[@paschalokeke3216]

The revenue circulate within the family...thats good... Its a sharp decision... Am a technician would love to join you without pay... but am in nigeria

[@seyfeddinechahmi2657]

Hi Alex I guess you forget the sponsor's Link you should put it in the description.

[@cinlung]

Do you have a team that handles the picture taking for your online stores or for all marketing beautification for your business? Because the connector picture are very detailed and beautifully taken.

[@randomsam83]

Alex you should make a franchise of NRF. I'll help you.

[@IT10T]

I watch his videos to remind myself of how smoothly repair diagnostics can go when you actually have the right utilities and knowledge, my experiences are very different lacking a good scope.

[@rlgrlg-oh6cc]

Have you ever seen him use an oscilloscope in a repair?

[@Nailzy1985]

@@rlgrlg-oh6cc By scope.... he means microscope. Not oscilloscope. Alex even talks about new microscopes coming in the video.

[@lattehour]

@@rlgrlg-oh6cc have you ever seen a repair on this channel ?

[@lattehour]

@@rlgrlg-oh6cc ps dont forget to get the magic usb box hahahahnaha

[@lattehour]

i took the polarized lens from an old lady she had them using for fishing but ceased to use them because she got blind i belive it was diabetes no joke here anyways you have at just 89.99 the 96 LED Microscope Super bright Ring Light - Shadow free illumination just in case you can`t find the old lady 😁

[@Fred-B]

Thank you for the video. Quick question; what are the qualifications needed to do your kind of work?

[@Tribes11]

Watching this video just confirms my own experience throughout the years, Seagate drives fails more than other brands.

[@rikbloemers43]

I wonder where your office is? I am about to finish school for associates in Electrical Engineer, but am in Arizona, I enjoy fixing things!

[@zachariepayant3864]

Awesome

[@mariushmedias]

There's probably a sata to usb bridge chip on the board (reason for second firmware), so you could have soldered 4 wires to the 2 differential pairs going into that sata-usb bridge chip to connect to a sata cable and make a drive image for backup purposes as fast as the drive allows.

[@MlnscBoo]

Hey Alex have you seen the rosin vape pens/flux atomizers being used to find shorted components? It's slower than using alcohol but it's pretty cool. What are your thoughts on them? Could the pure pine rosin be damaging to the solder mask/board layers? I mean I'd clean it anyways, just want to hear thoughts on them. Edit: Just realized you've already done a video on them. Cool Ima check it out

[@RejectedAccept90]

Can you please upload a video about soldering iron wattage, tip size, flux and pcb cleaning liquid for micro chips/ components?

[@FIXDIY]

Good

[@JMVD48]

Thank you for showing this for us. I can't connect my old Toshiba extern HD PX1268E-1G40 on my new computer with Windows 11, he's only working on a old computer with Windows 7 It still has some old video data on it that I would like to take off, but no one knows how to boot this HD in windows 11 😞

[@yummy_blueberry]

Love from Pakistan

[@suryavanshib]

Awesome ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻 Hard luck for me😇😇😇

[@gohangoku3447]

Yes, he makes it look so easy. Yes, he has very good tools to work with. But it's not primarily because of that, it's because of his experience and skills. A lot of people always think that someone does things well only because they have around them an armada of tools designed for that purpose, but rather it's because those tools have been added over time. Namely, the time spent to gain the necessary know-how and experience, so that one successively became more and more professional. I know these thoughts/statements from other fields as well. Musicians who claim that their music is only bad because others have better speakers. Students who think they are worse because the others have better calculators. PC gamers who think they play badly because they only have 60fps instead of 80fps.

[@user-zs1hm1cy8u]

Oh that gamer example will hit hard on those claiming it haha.

[@gohangoku3447]

@@user-zs1hm1cy8u yes 😅

[@mhammadajaj1097]

لو كنت قريب منك كنت جيت اشتغلت معك 😅😅

[@xxz4655]

Better than factory content

[@traditionaltools5080]

Its too bad I live in Canada. Im setup for micro soldering, an electrician and avionics systems tech by trade and have been working for a local company doing high end audio repair for 6 years. That sounds like a fantastic opportunity.

[@MultiMam12345]

There exist two type of harddrives. Drives that have failed and drives that will. Data that lives on 1 location is data you don't care about.

[@staminaman77]

Skip to @9:25 if you want to watch the actual repair..

[@hh-vq3cz]

I have a SONY VAIO PCF-136FM laptop. It gets so hot that the pc shut off itself automatically to prevent damage. Would you give me any guidance or hints that what would be the most likely reason for generating such heat?

[@chukemmang]

I just wish you had your office in Nigeria, my 2 hard drives would be fixed.

[@TDNMAFT.]

Do you sell the ear piece mic ?

[@ruudvansteenis]

What do you use to remove the flux? Alcohol?

[@MrGedazas]

what size of wire did you used?

[@HelmetVanga]

where are you guys based? Israel or Czech Republic? very interesting work you guys do.

[@ThisIS_Insane]

He stated that you must be in the US to even work for them, because of the limitations on shipping tech to other countries. He is here, too.

[@steav79i]

Hello brother, I'm your from Cambodia🇰🇭 . I had a hhd 1tb Seagate hard drive, it doesn't recognize with window (spinning with some noise first start) could you recover data from it.

[@tonymontana897]

I have several HDs in my PC tower, one of which is a Kingston 2.5" Solid State SSD. This particular drive never shows up on start up and then about 1/2 hour later it does. Why does it take so long to load itself ? I suspect it's dying but does anyone know what is causing it to lag so badly ?

[@rohanjoydhar2557]

Hello sir is there any video tutorial or book about how to repair this drives, I am an engineer and have interest in electronics and want to learn it, also another question you are an expert in this field which, can you tell me which one is easy to recover a HDD or SSD in case if some body want to keep his important data in terms of data recovery point of view?

[@DMCMICD]

"The person that attempted the repair is a young person" LMAO!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@geneeddie1]

Hi, do you know how to solve this problem hdd 1 year old I connect the cable and you hear it spinning but the green light does not come on The various PCs do not detect it 3.0 plug could it be the cable since they are not the best in comfort? A thousand thanks

[@RafalScrapper]

👍

[@gregfisher216]

Always better than factory Alex! Great videos ,we can learn a lot! Any updates on the house hunting?

[@user-jb5yc2ec5w]

Alex im coming to america from israel to work wgid you . This is my dream !!

[@PeterM-PeterM]

Habibi!

[@TheBeeman410]

Alex, One day I may consider myself skilled enough to work for you… Until then…🍻

[@kyslyslydlyslydoys]

I am a professional technician, but I am in Europe, I do all kinds of stuff including mobile phones, laptops, pc, graphics cards, everything basically if you cant find someone locally give me a shout. I am very interested in working with you. I live in Bulgaria!

[@casualonemmo-player2167]

If you really are that pro quality tech = def consider to move to the u.s

[@algovoid]

​@@casualonemmo-player2167it's not easy.

[@myne00]

Hard to believe you don't know that Louis Rossman's business does data recovery

[@alikharmandar1727]

Alex after seeing sign of flux and missing pads in a board: Ah shit, here we go again...

[@arkhairi]

High five

[@onuroskay8613]

Alex, please keep in mind cloning full capacity used hard drive to another blank drive over windows may take less time than coping all files to a new drive.