Why Do People Pay Me to Save Their Old Tech?

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The Gooch Collector full version:

0:00-1:00 - Intro
1:00-3:00 - Patient Zero
3:03-4:06 - A Superhero Appears
4:06-5:21 - HDD Recovery
5:23-6:27 - iBook Password Reset
6:28-6:38 - TGTTEL
6:47-7:08 - Certified Banger
7:09-7:40 - EZ PZ
7:40-8:04 - I'm Burned Out

[thedreadengine]

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.

[randomyt]

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

[JMG]

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

[weedsmokinator]

Literally the Beefy Computer from CS:Source map cs_office.

[nullkyanite]

I like the little laminated "can we fix it? no its Fucked" on the wall in the background

[clementpruvost]

21 year po-memory is such precious to all of the people who has those memories.

[D.von.N]

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.

[govid]

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.

[a.j.follmann]

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.

[panagiotispappas]

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!

[mrgrumpy]

6:40 Oh man, the OS X Tiger intro music brings back some memories.

[patricktschanz]

For the greatest tech YouTuber that's ever lived.

[absolutewisp]

That's some military grade swamp gooch on that Dell. Gooch Collector to the rescue!

[Tressie]

7:44 The greatest rapper that's ever lived.

[Randomdude_]

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😂

[satanicaleve]

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

[navorski]

fun fact: that desktop is the same one with the ones on the cs:office

[soheibmemes]

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!

[Jackie_XIII]

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

[Beckibird]

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!!