Revenge repair on faulty HD (using tin snips).

[ImanCarrot]

You know when a faulty HArd Disk keeps dropping sectors and messing with your head?

You try everything, losing valuable machining time while the HD keeps flashing write/ read errors and sniggering smugly at you?

Well, I thought that on behalf of all of us frustrated and annoyed engineers I should teach mine a lesson... with a pair of tin snips

Revenge is sweeet!

[epineh]

Thats what I call re-partitioning a hard disk!!! lol

Russell.

[ghyman]

From the "just because" department...

In the top-left corner of the HDD (in your pix) is the mechanism for positioning the heads. Pry that apart, and you will find two wicked-strong magnets therein.
And by "wicked strong", I mean "will hold a phone book to a filing cabinet".

Great fun.

[Weldtutor]

Originally Posted by ImanCarrot You know when a faulty HArd Disk keeps dropping sectors and messing with your head? Well, I thought that on behalf of all of us frustrated and annoyed engineers I should teach mine a lesson...

I hope it learned the lesson well, & works better for you, now that you have
re-educated it!

Is there a particular brand of tin snips to use, or do they all pretty much do the same job?

Do you have any other computer repair techniques to share?

[SCHootie]

Now,
I want to see you defragment it.

[ImanCarrot]

lmao! "defrag" where's my double sided tape and blu tak lol

[epineh]

Hmm, I have just had my HDD on the PC controlling my router die, can I send it to you for "servicing"

I know what you are thinking, that is a silly idea, postage woud be too much, oh well, going to check the "old school" toolbox for some tools to do the job myself, pics will follow...

Russell.

[dertsap]

a vise would work well
then you can see how much you can actually compress the disc

[dpuch]

And I always thought a BIG hammer was the solution to everything

[gravitar]

Originally Posted by ghyman From the "just because" department... In the top-left corner of the HDD (in your pix) is the mechanism for positioning the heads. Pry that apart, and you will find two wicked-strong magnets therein. And by "wicked strong", I mean "will hold a phone book to a filing cabinet". Great fun.

I've heard that before.. that some of the strongest magnets are in hard drives. I wonder what they would need such a powerful magnet for?

[springlakecnc]

Hey, that looks like fun!!

FYI: i have been using flash memory 4 some time now because of that. I discovered, if you have a 1 gig hard drive or bigger mounted to your machine somehow, if you always machine under 1500 rpms on the spindle, they do ok, but if you run 2-5,000 rpm, now your hard drive's days are numbered, and if you have a 10,000 rpm spindle, we busted a hard drive in 1 hour!!!!, no poop, we couldn't believe it, so 1 hour later, we busted another! Even if the spindle is just running, not even cutting anything! you can find flash hard drives if you search IDE to flash memory.