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Uploaded by on Dec 7, 2009

How to hack a hard drive and turn it into a speaker.

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  • ozzy on a hdd

  • ... environment, and made sure that no wind could blow in the room, and so on. I successfully repositioned the head, and reassembled the drive, and to my surprise it would even boot into Windows. There were however some bad data-read errors, but I was able to copy alot of data to another drive.

    So if the drive is dead, it is not impossible to do. Just very hard.. ;)

    Do NOT attempt to do this with a working drive!

  • It's not entirely true that a harddrive is dead the minute you open it.

    I actually repaired a dead harddrive (although ONLY to get the data out of it), by taking it apart, and repositioning the head.

    This, however, is ONLY ment to be done in VERY clean areas. Normally it would be done by professionals with big suits, who dedicated their lifes to safe other peoples data, within a cleanroom. But thereby not said it can be done only there.

    I did it at home, and was very careful to have a clean ...

  • The chip on the flex PCB inside the drive is the Preamp for the R/W head signals :)

  • yup it plays a very bad sound. But not so bad.

  • I wonder what you'd have to do to get some bass in there.. :wink:

    Whoops, I forgot - I'm not on the forums! =)

  • press it against a drum

  • omg ozzy osborn on a hard drive AWSOM

  • Way cool!

  • there is a program for the Commodore 64 that exploits its load noises for musical purposes (the youtube link is here):

    watch?v=5gnMgmlKi_o

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