<p>I recently had fun ripping a large number of drives apart.<br>
Found on Ebay a 45 piece tool set that had all needed screw drivers.<br>
Not hardened bits but with care you can get most drives apart without mangling the bit or screw.<br>
Over 100 platters scavenged and destined for an art project.<br>
One 1993 disc / disk drive said it had 512 MB of capacity had six platters inside. Another had 10 platters, I didn't look it up, the manufacturers were circumspect in telling the capacity on the label on the old guys.<br>
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<p>I have a pile of magnets. With care you can bend the metal away from the magnet since the appear to be glued on. These guys are very brittle.<br><br></p>
<p>Near the end of the supply of drives I had a WD200 ( 20GB Western Digital ) drive that I just removed the cover and left the guts intact. Entertaining to watch the thing try to calibrate. Head assembly bouncing around.</p>
<p> <br>
Alas I have no incite in fixing your drive.</p>
<p>---<br>
Vince</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 4, 2013 12:22 PM, "tom" <<a href="mailto:thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com">thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The old HDD from my laptop finally made a very loud clunk. I had already<br>
removed all the data off of it that I wanted. It's broken, so I can't<br>
really break it now. Wondering what made the clunk sound. Thinking I<br>
will take it apart to see if there is anything I can do to get it<br>
running again. Not going to freeze it to get it running one more time.<br>
No need. Data is recovered. Not worried about dust, etc. Any suggestions<br>
as to what to look for?<br>
<br>
Tom<br>
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