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    Originally posted by JonathanB
    So... what would I do first? Inspect the logic board? If so burned, do I wait for a similar drive to get its logic board? If not burned, what's should be next? How do I make a clean room? The suggested bathroom he he... WHILE doing my morning discharge there he he... (just a joke).
    I remember reading an interesting article on hard drives on howstuffworks.com .... Hold on i'll just pull up a link.. Oh yes, read this it tells you everything you need to know about hard drives, and why not to open them :d


    http://www.howstuffworks.com/hard-disk1.htm

    Hope that helps

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    As most have already said, there is a great chance that the drive is cratered. Now, if you do decide it is totaled, there are some powerful magnets inside that are a "must" to remove if you total it. The arm that the heads rotate on has positioning magnets on them. In fact, the first couple of drives I stripped I did not notice the magnets because I thought it was a welded piece - it was held together by the intense magnetic field.
    These magnets are able to easily magnetize screwdrivers and such. Good luck but I would definately write this hard drive off!
    -etcm

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    This gives me a great idea. It would make a nice clock if you opened one, put in a clear window and small insert clock in the center of the platter. I certainly have enough junk here to try it. I have a collection of minature clocks with movements as small as 3/4 in. They would make great gifts for nerds.

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    More on those magnets can be found here:

    http://www.dansdata.com/amazingmagnets.htm


    the old 120Mb HD I opened after reading this page was a pain in the you-know-what to open!!!

    If you want a non working hard drive to open and explore why not talk to IBM, I have heard they might have one or two


    GOOD LUCK if you decide to open yours.
    Last edited by Asonic; 12-24-2002 at 03:50 PM.
    (sorry if my spelling is bad)

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    Hmmm..... I wonder if they have one from an old 1130 or 360. I would make a cool coffee table.

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    Well, if you really wanted to I guess you could open it up and try - but don't get particularly disappointed if you're left with a worthless jumble of once-electronics. Why don't you just go buy a new one? It's not like 8.4 GB is a particularly large capacity.

    I opened two hard drives before - one for my own curiosity and one for my old boss's curiosity. Neither were particularly useful afterwards.

    Jason

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    NO if you open it, simply it WONT WORK, SIMPLE AS THAT.

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    My clock is almost finished and I used a working harddrive. We shall see.

    I'll post a picture.

    Anybody want to put odds on it to work?
    Last edited by ukulele; 12-24-2002 at 06:59 PM.

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    I know I posted this earlier in this thread, but here it is again.

    This guy opened up his hard drive so he could mod it with a window.
    http://www.bit-tech.net/article/72



    I believe that article will describe how he did it. He says the hard drive is still working.

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    Oh... what a long funeral for a dead... drive. I may just keep it for a while and wait for another similar dead drive for its logic board. What a long wake...And thanks to you alllll.

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    Here is my clock. I fired it up with the cover off and it did still work even after getting dusted in my shop.


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    if the data is so important to u.. u can send it to a lab they only charge about 10,000$ for data recovery.... my father had a hd that had the mad buisness files on... they werent backed up becuz the os was pre-unix... the os he had didnt support bak up drives... if u need the data that bad u can always send it to a lab but me doubt its worth the money

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    10,000$ for data recovery
    I don't even have a small fraction of that he he...

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    Originally posted by ukulele
    Here is my clock. I fired it up with the cover off and it did still work even after getting dusted in my shop.

    I like the clock!

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    That's innovation right there. I'm still waiting to open my trashed 170mb IBM HDD. It has those whatchamacallit screws, the ones that compaq uses.

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