Disk repair

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Hello

I have a clean room in school laboratory and i'd like to repair my damaged
disk.. It's clicking.
Do u think i can exchange the heads in the drive from good one to
my ?
Is it possible to make ?

thanks
 
Hello

I have a clean room in school laboratory and i'd like to repair my damaged
disk.. It's clicking.
Do u think i can exchange the heads in the drive from good one to
my ?
Is it possible to make ?

thanks
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Have fun trying, but not even the professionals repair the heads on
current disks for any reason other than to recover the data, and it's
expensive. The drive is canned, afterwords. BTW What makes you think
replacing the heads is the solution ?

It's fun to open up disks, and poeple have even run them with the lid
off, for a while. This was when a disk was 20MB. I have a 200MB
server disk that weights about 30 pounds here as a bookend. The
magnets in disk drives are as powerful as anything you've ever played
with, probably.

Hobbyists have successfuly swaped circuit cards but I've never
heard of anyone replacing a head.
 
On 19 Jul 2004 08:54:39 -0400, (e-mail address removed) (Al Dykes) wrote:

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server disk that weights about 30 pounds here as a bookend.
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I have an 80 pounds 50MB drive. It's really huge and has a monsterous
power requirement that would burn down most houses.
Hobbyists have successfuly swaped circuit cards but I've never
heard of anyone replacing a head.
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With the clicky head, even a board swap may not work. But I'd try
swapping the board first in case it is the controller chip on board
that has failed.
 
You have no idea what is broken, so you are wasting your time.

A clean room would allow for a visual inspection. Platter damage means junk
it.
 
Previously ddnet said:
Hello
Click to expand...
I have a clean room in school laboratory and i'd like to repair my damaged
disk.. It's clicking.
Do u think i can exchange the heads in the drive from good one to
my ?
Is it possible to make ?
Click to expand...

Don't expect it to work, but it sure sounds like an interesting
projct.

Arno
 
Maybe it is just electronic board that is defective, and in that case drive
opening is not necessery. You just need to find electronics of same
type/model hard drive and change it. I did that few times with diferent
Maxtror/WD drives that made clicking noise.

Doggy
 
Would any recommend trying to replace the circuit on a laptop harddrive? I
picked up a defective harddrive on eBay for less than a dollar and was
wondering if changing the board would do it. It is a 30GB travelstar and I
have a 6GB travelstar installed in my laptop. Are the boards compatible?

Thanks
Kevin
 
no...

u dont have chance


Kevin Nelson said:
Would any recommend trying to replace the circuit on a laptop harddrive? I
picked up a defective harddrive on eBay for less than a dollar and was
wondering if changing the board would do it. It is a 30GB travelstar and I
have a 6GB travelstar installed in my laptop. Are the boards compatible?

Thanks
Kevin
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Kevin Nelson said:
Would any recommend trying to replace the circuit on a laptop harddrive? I
picked up a defective harddrive on eBay for less than a dollar and was
wondering if changing the board would do it. It is a 30GB travelstar and I
have a 6GB travelstar installed in my laptop. Are the boards compatible?
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I dont think so. I think only board from same hard drive will work, but i am
not expert on the subject. I only changed boards from the same type hard
drives, 6,4 GB Quantum CX series, Maxtor 20 GB Lct and similar.

Doggy
 
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