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From: Folkert Rienstra on 16 Jan 2006 13:33 "James Sweet" <jamessweet(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:3BQyf.7600$Zo.750(a)trnddc07 > David C. Partridge wrote: > > Hmmmm why do you want to open the case of the drive? If you open it > > outside a class 1 clean room, the drive WILL die. > > > > Or are you talking about the drive mounting screws? > > > > > > > From the picture, it's the screws that hold together the external case. > Probably wants to upgrade the drive or put it in a different case. Whoa. Someone actually *READ* the original post and looked at the linked picture.
From: Peter on 16 Jan 2006 13:21 > [I've been taking them apart to play with the magnets--- not as strong as I > expected in the newer drives] > > magnets? in a hard drive? Voice Coil Assembly http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/op/actActuator.html
From: mm on 16 Jan 2006 13:38 On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:39:08 GMT, "Handi" <handi_ca(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > I'd dare to guess that if this fellow doesn't recognize a Torx screw >that he isn't aware that he should never open a hard drive. > > Torx screws are seldom used for no other purpose then to keep the prying >eyes of consumers from sensitive stuff. Too many maybes and negatives in this sentence for me to understand it. > Thats why they're used in >elevators. They're also used in my car just to hold the trunk struts on. Nothing secret about that. Don't get me started on what I used to do to elevators.. > My son has actually opened a defective laptop hard drive before and >amazingly it still functioned, for only a short time. Now its a >paperweight. > >Handi > Remove NOPSAM to email me. Please let me know if you have posted also.
From: mm on 16 Jan 2006 13:42 On 16 Jan 2006 08:17:07 -0800, "stickyfox(a)gmail.com" <stickyfox(a)gmail.com> wrote: ..... >I've opened hard drives again and again in very filthy rooms and >they've never shown any ill effects over the days, or in some cases >weeks, that I operated them. I do this all the time with old drives >because I can see what's happening inside the drive while I test my >control circuitry. > >If I was manufacturing hundreds of thousands of drives and had to worry >about warranties and customer satisfaction, I'd be doing it in a clean >room. And I would buy a new drive before attempting to repair a damaged >one. But you definitely can operate a hard drive without the cover for >a while; probably long enough to do whatever you want if you don't >dawdle. My drive is clicking, and one important partition has a very bad directory structure. I'm not sure I can copy over even the good partitions before it "fails". If I open it, what would I want to do to stop the clicking, or to keep the clicking syndrome from preventing me from copying the data to a good drive. (The bad partition is FAT16 (because I was still running win3.1 and win98 and wanted both OSes to access the parttiion.) Remove NOPSAM to email me. Please let me know if you have posted also.
From: J. Clarke on 16 Jan 2006 13:09
wrench wrote: > > [I've been taking them apart to play with the magnets--- not as strong as > [I > expected in the newer drives] > > magnets? in a hard drive? Yes, magnets in a hard drive. Part of the actuator. -- --John to email, dial "usenet" and validate (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |