Hard Drive repair

[Panama Red]

Excellent Hard Drive repair tutorial. You may want pen and paper in hand to take notes.

http://www.flyinglizard.freeserve.co.uk/

[HAL9000]

Little more suited to the General Discussion.

[Cricket]

Warning: These repairs were done by trained experts under controlled conditions...do not attempt to do these repairs at home unless you too are a trained expert.

:) Cricket

[DragonNOA1]

Nice. Followed all the directions and it worked out great! Good as new. Thanks Panama.

[Propain]

Im going to try this on a Quantum Fireball, What do I have to lose ? :D

[mairving]

I attempted this on a brand new Maxtor drive. When I was through with the process it was a Fijitsu drive (or at least acted like one).

[glc]

What brand of torch is required to turn it into a WD?

[doubledragon5]

Still remember the first one I took a part. I did it when we upgraded to a larger drive and thought the old one was no longer usefull. Believe me when I was done it was not usefull for anything.

[raftero]

that will work on a deer power supply also.

[Propain]

Originally posted by glc
What brand of torch is required to turn it into a WD? I think youd have to use acetylene(A colorless, highly flammable or explosive gas, C2H2, used for metal welding and cutting and as an illuminant. Also called ethyne).
for WD because they are quieter and propane will distorte the allignement of the platters. :)

[TwoRails]

ROTFLMAO!! :D -- That is great!! I just repaired all the dead Seagates laying around into Maxtors! - I love it :)

[LawyerRon]

It's interesting how Hard Drive fortunes rise and fall. About 4 years ago the IBM Deskstar was regarded as possibly the best drive you could buy; and the most recommended on this forum. I installed several of them in machines back then with no problems. Now they're regarded as junk.

[Carl Price]

Simple, Hitachi bought them!