... 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.. ;)
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 ...
ozzy on a hdd
brunoshow124 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
... 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!
majcherek128 8 months ago 2
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 ...
majcherek128 8 months ago 2
The chip on the flex PCB inside the drive is the Preamp for the R/W head signals :)
Andromedan 1 year ago
yup it plays a very bad sound. But not so bad.
dgfia 1 year ago
I wonder what you'd have to do to get some bass in there.. :wink:
Whoops, I forgot - I'm not on the forums! =)
ChrisKarr 1 year ago
press it against a drum
CAIDMASTEROFPYRO 1 year ago
omg ozzy osborn on a hard drive AWSOM
ljmike1204 1 year ago
Way cool!
YouMockMe 2 years ago
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
itstheit 2 years ago