No joke, my brain automatically answered the title question with “Because you’re the Greatest Technician That’s Ever Lived”. I think I’m watching your shorts a little too much.
These people know that they have irreplaceable memories on these machines and don't have the technical knowledge to retrieve them. That's precisely why they come to the greatest technician that's ever lived to get them off. My parents had a close call with an old laptop HDD that had been over rough roads and I got the photos off before it died. This is why they want their old stuff fixed
Middle aged woman here, without prior formal computing education besides a few lessons at school where we rather played the Prince game back in 1996 or so. Fixed a broken hinge on my old 32 bit ex Vista laptop, runnin Linux on it, learned to love terminal. Phasing Windoze of my other, more modern, machines, too. Loving your videos.
After getting the data off i like to clollect those old pcs and restore them with recovery disks. There is something charming about them. Seeing them run like new with all orginal software. It brings a smile to my face.
I want to collect these old PCs and repair but it seems my local area is gatekeeping them from me. It's that I can't find any or someone is charging an absurd price for them. Even if they are not working.
About 10 years ago I replaced the HDD of a 12" iBook G4 with an IDE SSD. You have to remove 74 screws! 74! I still have nightmares of missing a screw putting it back together and having to open it back up.
That hurts to even think about. I have a laptop from 2011 that only needs the 4 screws to release the HDD, it doesn't even need any to hold the case together. Two buttons that hold the battery and bottom of the case together, takes less than 5 seconds to open and gain entry to all of the internals
Talking about data recovery from old HDDs… Some time ago I found an old HP desktop on ewaste, the only things on the case were the motherboard and 2 HDDs. So I installed some ram and a power supply and it booted right up to windows XP! Idk if the previous owners knew that they threw out SO MANY photos and videos of them and backed the up, or if they just didn’t care, because there were gigs and gigs on both hard drives of photos of them going to rock concerts and having fun, videos of them going out, some rock music they made and so much more! Nothing sensitive thank god, but WOW, all these memories and files just got thrown out!
How often do you go back and look at all those "priceless" pics, saved over the years...? Yeah. Nobody does. Not that I don't have TBs of the same crap.
Even with plenty of bad sectors, a little ddrescue can go far! There technically are ways to recover SSDs that are incredibly complex, involving putting an SSD controller into a service mode of some sort. You know, for when the SSD goes to sleep but forgets about how to wake back up. An actual issue for some SSDs. Ugh.
@@SalemTechsperts I had that same exact Dell in two weeks ago for a data backup to an external and repair of a borked windows install. Dude has a program on that old machine that doesn't run on any newer devices
@@satanicaleve My solution to this is usually selling them a new PC running a VM with that software. Problem is when the software isn't obtainable anymore
The Greatest Technician That's Ever Lived FOR REAL, I watch videos from France and I find them cool, the music from the gooch collector has been squatting on my headphones for 3 hours thank you for releasing it, keep up what you're doing, it's cool :)
I also started working on one of those Dells because that’s what my grandma had and we didn’t have the money to keep taking it to a shop so I learned how to do so much with that thing software wise. I’m actually now learning how to repair computers and I’m about to learn to code. You guys are awesome keep up the good work!!
finally yet another video of the greatest technician that's ever lived fixing ur grandma's PC to see her grandchildren she was walking with 5 minutes ago!
I did a data recovery for a customer on an old family desktop that hadn't worked in a while and was actually able to find backlogs of family photos that they thought they had lost including photos of their grandparents meeting, children's graduation photos, wedding photos and even a audio recording of their grandmother singing at somebody's wedding which was prevalent because the woman had just died. It's usually worth it to work on Old tech and you never know what you may find when doing so
Speaking from a person who is just starting to tinker with older laptops, I managed to replace the screen on my older laptop and while small in comparison to what others are capable of, I am actually proud of myself.
Had a customer that really wanted to keep is old Core2Duo...... Overall ended up upgrading his win7 to win10, swap his HDD to a SSD and then clone it, upgrade his ram from 2Gb to 6Gb (surprised I had DDR2 still laying around), cleaning, new paste, etc, etc... overall came to about 250$ for a machine worth about 50$ only cause the SSD is new... 🤷♂ Told him we had refurb. i5 6th gen for about the same price, more ram and Nvme SSD... but yet he still wanted to keep his old machine.🤦♂
Yep. I don't know if people develop bonds to their devices or what, but I see that somewhat often where I work in K-12 IT. We have a science teacher at a high school who refuses to get rid of his nearly decade old HP ProDesk PC. The thing has 4 GB of RAM and a 500 GB HDD and is just painfully slow to use. He was given a standard-issue laptop probably 5 years ago and rarely uses it. We did make it clear to him (by "we" I mean the previous techs) that if and when the PC fails, we're not going to fix it anymore. I've also had a few teachers be very reluctant to get a new laptop, even when their old device was physically falling apart and painfully slow to use; yet they would be complaining about their slow device...
Awesome video. I recently recycled a G4 (amazing) and it booted to the log in screen. There's no way to keep maintaining it and the batteries are time bombs. If you had a NiMH battery it will degrade and become extremely corrosive. If you were 'lucky' and got Li-Ion, it will become puffy and might explode.
The 4600 was the last OEM computer I had before I started building my own. It had really bad air flow combined with a hot Pentium 4 and ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. I give it credit for giving me the confidence to build my own after having to replace the GPU, sound card, and upgrade the RAM in that compact computer for the time.
That''s my story with a 2011 Probook 4430s. It was my first computer, and I gave it upgrades across the board after a few years + having some cash to spend. Fastest supported CPU, maxed out with 16gb of ram, a 1tb SSD, swapped out the optical drive for a 750gb HDD caddy, an "unsupported" wifi card that gave me back bluetooth functionality, the works. About a month after I did that I built my first pc and have absolutely loved it.
I did not know that the gooch collector song was on spotify. Now i have something to listen to while driving and helping my friends clean their crusty old pc's xD
My friend recently tried to have me revive two absolutely ancient Alienware PCs; they still had IDE and hadn't even been powered on in close to 18 years and were missing so many parts that there was only one whole system left between the two of them.
I like that Apple made it easier to remove the password on newer versions of their Macs. Just need to boot into recovery, go into terminal and type resetpassword and if its a local account you can remove the password easily
those og PCs remind me of middle school computer class, where my gamer friends and i would share a thumb drive, and install CS 1.6 with poolday and gun_game. *sigh* good times... *tear*
No lie, I still have a 2004 PowerBook that powered on... until the adapter got lost in a move in 2016 and now it sits like a stone in my storage closet. Ahh, memories.
The funny thing is that I found an abandoned Dell Dimensions B110 in my building a few months ago. The problem is that it’s suffering from brain detachment, which means that the cpu isn’t seated in the socket properly. Thankfully, the socket isn’t damaged at all but the cpu pins are bent. So it’s not a total loss, unless the pins underneath the cpu socket are bent or broken. If that happens, it’s game over. Moral of this story, if you’re gonna take out the heatsink, make sure you don’t yank it out by force or you’ll take out the CPU attached to it by the thermal paste. Doing so will damage the pins. I’ll probably do a video about it. Anyways, love your videos man! 👍
even though those old Dell Dimentions are one of the most Generic Office PC's out there for windows XP era my Main Windows XP rig (a old Dimention 4550) are still very Reliable. they are i mostly say too myself the Office Swedish Volvo's. mostly allways work. hardly saw them broken down. mostly caked in dust but are still pretty decent for a little XP Retro rig
Getting into password locked computers was a good earner for me when I started in laptop/PC repair. You gotta be careful though cos not everyone owns the PC they want you to get into!!!
Wow, I think I had that same Dell unit. We had a lot of fun downloading from Limewire, playing Runescape, and talking on messenger. That old macbook is so aesthetically pleasing. How hard would it be for Apple to bring out a nostalgic collection???
your not funny.......at all
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😂💀@@SalemTechsperts
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@@SalemTechsperts yuor'e 😎
No joke, my brain automatically answered the title question with “Because you’re the Greatest Technician That’s Ever Lived”. I think I’m watching your shorts a little too much.
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damn i think you should look at the black sky.
Well said
🫡
Trully For Real
These people know that they have irreplaceable memories on these machines and don't have the technical knowledge to retrieve them. That's precisely why they come to the greatest technician that's ever lived to get them off. My parents had a close call with an old laptop HDD that had been over rough roads and I got the photos off before it died. This is why they want their old stuff fixed
That's why the right to repair laws need to exist
I got rid of my ibook just like that, I really hope they don't go to the greatest technician ever and steal all my inf-
Middle aged woman here, without prior formal computing education besides a few lessons at school where we rather played the Prince game back in 1996 or so. Fixed a broken hinge on my old 32 bit ex Vista laptop, runnin Linux on it, learned to love terminal. Phasing Windoze of my other, more modern, machines, too. Loving your videos.
This is awesome. Thank you for watching my stuff!
One of us. One of us. One of us. One of us. One of us. :D
The command line is your friend. Linux for life!
I like the little laminated "can we fix it? no its Fucked" on the wall in the background
21 year po-memory is such precious to all of the people who has those memories.
Yea man, can't imagine losing the folder of po- homework.
Imagine someone pulling up in their car to a person in a yellow costume and 2 huge toothbrushes scrubbing the shit out of a 20 year old computer
Someone came out of the bar next door as I was posing and they must have thought they got roofied
Literally the Beefy Computer from CS:Source map cs_office.
Yes and no the actual Office computer is a 8300.
Bringus studios new video where he actually found it.
@@AAlgeria I have seen it, it's pretty good.
@@weedsmokinator420 yeah, why does he think sharpies smell bad tho?
@@AAlgeria I don't really have a good guess.
Update: It turned out later in the video that the ZipDisk Drive was busted and not the PSU.
After getting the data off i like to clollect those old pcs and restore them with recovery disks. There is something charming about them. Seeing them run like new with all orginal software. It brings a smile to my face.
I want to collect these old PCs and repair but it seems my local area is gatekeeping them from me. It's that I can't find any or someone is charging an absurd price for them. Even if they are not working.
For the greatest tech TH-camr that's ever lived.
Hah, thank you Patrick!!!
About 10 years ago I replaced the HDD of a 12" iBook G4 with an IDE SSD. You have to remove 74 screws! 74! I still have nightmares of missing a screw putting it back together and having to open it back up.
That hurts to even think about. I have a laptop from 2011 that only needs the 4 screws to release the HDD, it doesn't even need any to hold the case together. Two buttons that hold the battery and bottom of the case together, takes less than 5 seconds to open and gain entry to all of the internals
6:40 Oh man, the OS X Tiger intro music brings back some memories.
I had no idea it slapped this hard
Talking about data recovery from old HDDs…
Some time ago I found an old HP desktop on ewaste, the only things on the case were the motherboard and 2 HDDs. So I installed some ram and a power supply and it booted right up to windows XP! Idk if the previous owners knew that they threw out SO MANY photos and videos of them and backed the up, or if they just didn’t care, because there were gigs and gigs on both hard drives of photos of them going to rock concerts and having fun, videos of them going out, some rock music they made and so much more! Nothing sensitive thank god, but WOW, all these memories and files just got thrown out!
Dang. So many memories chucked away.
Anything to identify them by on the pics? I know it's a lot of effort, but I'd try to reach out to them to see if they need the memories back.
How much it cost for HDD data recovery? In my country with average salary of $200 per month, the cost to recover data from broken HDD is $500 per 1TB.
This probably wasn't the only back-up.
How often do you go back and look at all those "priceless" pics, saved over the years...? Yeah. Nobody does. Not that I don't have TBs of the same crap.
TGTTEL
OHHHH it just hit me what it stands for. Of course
What does that mean?
@@laxminarayananks1520The GOONEST Technician Thats Ever Lived
@@laxminarayananks1520The greatest technician that's ever lived
@@laxminarayananks1520 when you know, you know
That's some military grade swamp gooch on that Dell. Gooch Collector to the rescue!
7:44 The greatest rapper that's ever lived.
That is the one thing about mechanical drives in that you have a good chance of retrieving data from a failing drive compared to SSD's
Even with plenty of bad sectors, a little ddrescue can go far!
There technically are ways to recover SSDs that are incredibly complex, involving putting an SSD controller into a service mode of some sort. You know, for when the SSD goes to sleep but forgets about how to wake back up. An actual issue for some SSDs. Ugh.
Indeed, one of the reasons they're still superior for storing things when speed isn't a factor
@@SalemTechsperts I had that same exact Dell in two weeks ago for a data backup to an external and repair of a borked windows install. Dude has a program on that old machine that doesn't run on any newer devices
@@satanicaleve My solution to this is usually selling them a new PC running a VM with that software. Problem is when the software isn't obtainable anymore
Yes, but the mechanical drive is more likely to fail then the SSD.
ballsy of you to tell people how to avoid making you do a job for them. I respect it.
The Greatest Technician That's Ever Lived FOR REAL, I watch videos from France and I find them cool, the music from the gooch collector has been squatting on my headphones for 3 hours thank you for releasing it, keep up what you're doing, it's cool :)
I also started working on one of those Dells because that’s what my grandma had and we didn’t have the money to keep taking it to a shop so I learned how to do so much with that thing software wise. I’m actually now learning how to repair computers and I’m about to learn to code. You guys are awesome keep up the good work!!
finally yet another video of the greatest technician that's ever lived fixing ur grandma's PC to see her grandchildren she was walking with 5 minutes ago!
I did a data recovery for a customer on an old family desktop that hadn't worked in a while and was actually able to find backlogs of family photos that they thought they had lost including photos of their grandparents meeting, children's graduation photos, wedding photos and even a audio recording of their grandmother singing at somebody's wedding which was prevalent because the woman had just died.
It's usually worth it to work on Old tech and you never know what you may find when doing so
I went to apple music faster than you could say “the gooch collector” when I saw that you put it up there 😂
Love ittttt
Speaking from a person who is just starting to tinker with older laptops, I managed to replace the screen on my older laptop and while small in comparison to what others are capable of, I am actually proud of myself.
congrats! I'm also proud of you, because that sounds like such a daunting task!
@@fluffybunnybadass Thank you! It was a bit as I had to make sure I didn't snap the frame around the screen.
Had a customer that really wanted to keep is old Core2Duo...... Overall ended up upgrading his win7 to win10, swap his HDD to a SSD and then clone it, upgrade his ram from 2Gb to 6Gb (surprised I had DDR2 still laying around), cleaning, new paste, etc, etc... overall came to about 250$ for a machine worth about 50$ only cause the SSD is new... 🤷♂ Told him we had refurb. i5 6th gen for about the same price, more ram and Nvme SSD... but yet he still wanted to keep his old machine.🤦♂
Yep. I don't know if people develop bonds to their devices or what, but I see that somewhat often where I work in K-12 IT. We have a science teacher at a high school who refuses to get rid of his nearly decade old HP ProDesk PC. The thing has 4 GB of RAM and a 500 GB HDD and is just painfully slow to use. He was given a standard-issue laptop probably 5 years ago and rarely uses it. We did make it clear to him (by "we" I mean the previous techs) that if and when the PC fails, we're not going to fix it anymore.
I've also had a few teachers be very reluctant to get a new laptop, even when their old device was physically falling apart and painfully slow to use; yet they would be complaining about their slow device...
Virgins: It's just a man wearing a funny yellow suit.
Me: It's the gooch collector and he just recovered 5TB of your po... pokemon videos🗿
fun fact: that desktop is the same one with the ones on the cs:office
beefy computer
nope, the actual one is a modified 8400
@@richwater296" um actually🤓☝🏽" ahh comment
@@PixelPulseV1 whenever i point something wrong out i get replied with the nerd emoji oh my fucking god
Awesome video. I recently recycled a G4 (amazing) and it booted to the log in screen. There's no way to keep maintaining it and the batteries are time bombs. If you had a NiMH battery it will degrade and become extremely corrosive. If you were 'lucky' and got Li-Ion, it will become puffy and might explode.
The 4600 was the last OEM computer I had before I started building my own. It had really bad air flow combined with a hot Pentium 4 and ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. I give it credit for giving me the confidence to build my own after having to replace the GPU, sound card, and upgrade the RAM in that compact computer for the time.
That''s my story with a 2011 Probook 4430s. It was my first computer, and I gave it upgrades across the board after a few years + having some cash to spend. Fastest supported CPU, maxed out with 16gb of ram, a 1tb SSD, swapped out the optical drive for a 750gb HDD caddy, an "unsupported" wifi card that gave me back bluetooth functionality, the works. About a month after I did that I built my first pc and have absolutely loved it.
@@Sterling_Silver04 Awesome! We all have to start somewhere. You won't forget that computer.
Great content man. You make me miss tinkering with computers.
Thank you! I appreciate that. Buy a cheap beater off eBay or something, you can still tinker!
I can't even believe that I will see that specific Dell computer
I already saw that on bringus studio a couple days ago
I did not know that the gooch collector song was on spotify. Now i have something to listen to while driving and helping my friends clean their crusty old pc's xD
Daaamnn. Despite your lost sleep, the editing was superb.
3:09 best song ngl
whats the background music name
Monster Inc. hazmat suit
My friend recently tried to have me revive two absolutely ancient Alienware PCs; they still had IDE and hadn't even been powered on in close to 18 years and were missing so many parts that there was only one whole system left between the two of them.
God damn the things you go through just to make a few meme filled videos. My man you truly are one of the unsung heroes and you deserve all the praise
Your long form content is the best man
When I worked at Apple in 2000, I supported these beast.
MacOS command line is case sensitive because it's based on a Unix/Linux/FreeBSD schmoo.
Just discovered your channel, love the content 😂and your coworker matches your energy and vibes
I like that Apple made it easier to remove the password on newer versions of their Macs. Just need to boot into recovery, go into terminal and type resetpassword and if its a local account you can remove the password easily
Even the production value makes it worth the time. The humour is just an added W
We all love the gooch collector.
Your channel literally motivated me to build my own pc
Watching you fix computers is really entertaining, makes me want to mail in my old laptop for repairs even though i dont even live in the states
those og PCs remind me of middle school computer class, where my gamer friends and i would share a thumb drive, and install CS 1.6 with poolday and gun_game. *sigh* good times... *tear*
Keep up the great work dude, we need more people like you! 😁👍🏻
This guy is entertaining too watch because he's making clean content, sometimes quite literally
That Dell case is a core memory for my childhood. I love that case.
lowkey, the gooch collector goes hard
the ai photo of coins burning while a fireman with a garden hose shines light on it is art
Always enjoy the content no matter how long it is. Hope we continue to help you stay in business :)
An ssd wouldn't have even lasted 5 years this thing lasted 21
Just woke up to a video made by the legendary, greatest technician that's ever lived. Great video as always!
the gooch collecter music is so good. its so good in fact i made it my alarm, not joking!
honestly you inspired me to become a pc repair men. I hope shops like yours find a way to stay.
The Gooch Collector, the heroe we deserve.
I used to work at Apple as a hardware tech, that installer theme music took me back!! 😊
Love what you do! Educational, informative and entertaining! Keep up the wonderful work, good sir!
The song is out?! Hell yeah dude, going right in my playlist
The greatest content creator i have seen
the gooch collector song is peak music
I thought it was worthy of at least a Grammy…
For anyone wondering the song used on the welcome screen
It Bytecry by Weevil.
1:10 PC from CSGO office
CSS* (sorry)
It's also now in CS2
We had that exact model of desktop in my house growing up. It's legitimately what I learned to use a computer on.
thanks u andy for the intro of the macbook :D
You are the best technologist who has ever lived
The greatest gooch collector that's ever gooched!!
No lie, I still have a 2004 PowerBook that powered on... until the adapter got lost in a move in 2016 and now it sits like a stone in my storage closet. Ahh, memories.
Gooch collector 🗿🕺🏾🕺🏾🕺🏾🕺🏻🕺🏻
Lupe's emotional mug made me chuckle
Just imagen pulling up to the parking lot to get some Subway and seing someone in a Yellow suit with anime hair and toothbrushes clean a acient pc😂
Thank you michael cera
my pleasure
The way he instantly comes inside from a window before instantly going outside is crazy.
Whoa! The OG Dimension! I hated working on those back in the day!
The funny thing is that I found an abandoned Dell Dimensions B110 in my building a few months ago. The problem is that it’s suffering from brain detachment, which means that the cpu isn’t seated in the socket properly. Thankfully, the socket isn’t damaged at all but the cpu pins are bent. So it’s not a total loss, unless the pins underneath the cpu socket are bent or broken. If that happens, it’s game over. Moral of this story, if you’re gonna take out the heatsink, make sure you don’t yank it out by force or you’ll take out the CPU attached to it by the thermal paste. Doing so will damage the pins. I’ll probably do a video about it. Anyways, love your videos man! 👍
Damn the song was truly heart touching
I love it when Salem Techsperts Salems all over my Techsperts and fixes my grandma's PC.
so many memories, so many good times and i still have the OG installation CDs
you really teabagged that ancient dell 😭
even though those old Dell Dimentions are one of the most Generic Office PC's out there for windows XP era
my Main Windows XP rig (a old Dimention 4550) are still very Reliable.
they are i mostly say too myself the Office Swedish Volvo's. mostly allways work. hardly saw them broken down.
mostly caked in dust but are still pretty decent for a little XP Retro rig
The greatest technician that's ever lived
The gooch collector went super saiyan for this one!
Merely looking at the swamp gooch triggered my asthma...
You know its a good day when bro uploads a vid
a lot of nostalgia whit that dell
You cooked with that song 🔥
I really enjoyed this video because I too started learning about computers with these generations of Dells.
Also song is an absolute banger 😂
That iBook is cool.
The greatest technician thats ever lived
This brings back memories
1:00 Counter Strike Office moment
rollercoaster tycoon bring back alot of good fun and frustrating memories
HELL YEAH THE GREATEST TECHNICIAN THAT EVER LIVED ALSO LOVES THE 10.4 INTRO
Yooo it's the CS:Office Computer (1:00)
Getting into password locked computers was a good earner for me when I started in laptop/PC repair. You gotta be careful though cos not everyone owns the PC they want you to get into!!!
He's not the hero we deserve, but he's the hero we need: The Gooch Collector V2 Ultra Instinct Goochinator.
The Greatest Gooch Collector That Ever Lived
The macbook alien music rocks!!👽👾
Wow, I think I had that same Dell unit. We had a lot of fun downloading from Limewire, playing Runescape, and talking on messenger.
That old macbook is so aesthetically pleasing. How hard would it be for Apple to bring out a nostalgic collection???