| Absinthe Fire Method | Building YouN00b's New Server |
| Submitted On: Friday, March 20, 2009 at 12:02:03 AM |
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DO NOT ATTEMPT: Articles provided here are for INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. DO NOT undertake any project based upon any information obtained on the internet, including this website. We are not responsible for, nor do we assume any liability for, damages resulting from the use of any information on this site. Please read the Legal page for more information. Do this. This will end your harddrive. Gone. Trashed. Erased. Purged, Deleted, Garbage. Think of it this way, if you have to make a special trip to the store to get a tool to disassemble a device or something, chances are you don't want to do it. There's a reason that hard drives are held together with T5, T6, and T8 screws...Who the hell would have those handy? Surely not your typical "home-carpenter" who installs a junction box backwards. Well, I have the tools, and a drive that was treating me like a sally, so I decided that it was time to take off its shirt and expose it's insides. So, here it is. This isn't a typical hard drive...This one in particular was a 60 GB 2.5" laptop hard drive...and because the bad sector list caused me to scroll the page, I figured it wouldn't be suitable for jack shit. Untampered with...What you should do:  You'll notice the screws around the outside perimeter of the drive:  Remove those. This is just another step to see who screwed with the drive, and another way to trip up the typical do-it-yourselfer...  ^Uber hidden screws! After that is taken off, the cover will come right off, exposing the fun shit inside:  The shiny parts are the platters, where the data is stored, to the left are the magnets and coil that controls the head movement (you'll see more of these later), and the data out connector, which is the little board in the corner. On the inside of the cover, you can see a black rubber piece...this is a gasket to help keep debris out. The little white circle is a vent for the drive, that way it can operate at differ...
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