"Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith" writes:
> Hello Travis
>
> Well I'm bound to say I'm a little surprised at this. I mean; taking a
> hard drive to pieces is no small matter. How did she get the drive out of
> the machine let alone get it to pieces? I think I could get a drive out
> of a machine now, but only because I've been shown how. But as for taking
> one to pieces, I wouldn't know where to start.
You start by not intending to repair it, but to totally
destroy it (smile.)
The flash drive I replaced it with is not physically the
same size as a standard electromagnetic drive so I thought it
would be possible to strip off everything from the chassis and
then use the old chassis to physically support the new drive.
You can certainly buy adaptors to make the flash drive fit a
standard bay, but I didn't know what it would look like so
didn't know I needed them until it arrived. The old drive is
rubbish anyway, so why not?
In case you are curious, the biggest problem is dealing
with those security screws that are purposely not compatible
with any known wrench or screw driver one has around.
I was able to loosen most of them by wedging a small
screwdriver in to the strange head and twisting while wondering
if the screw would loosen before the small screw driver bent.
There was another security screw holding the head rack
pivot to the post and I accidentally loosened it while trying to
push the post out of its hole.
The disk platters, themselves were on a shaft that was a
press fit in to the chassis so a hammer and punch knocked that
assembly out.
I now have an empty chassis that I can most likely use
to secure the new flash drive so that it doesn't just flop
around loose and short out something.
I am curious as to how things are made, anyway, so this
was an interesting exercise, but there was no plan at all of
fixing or using the old drive again.
Martin
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