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Here we start off with one hard drive, before the mahem begins.
Here are the six screws to be removed on the top of the hard drive to remove the lid.
There’s one more screw hidden under a sticker on the lid, I just used the good ole’ finger to hand screw this one out, It didnt need much.
After you get those out you can just pull the lid off.
Now we go to work on removing the back circuitboard
You can see the two main screws at the top.
Since these screws are machine drilled in, some of them may need a bit more “encouragement” to come out than others.
Now just remove the bottom set of screws.
Now before you remove the circuit board, just pull out the ribbon cable connecting the circuit board to the read/write head.
Now the circuit board should just come right off.
Next I unscrewed the ribbon cable connecting the read/write head to the circuit board from the inside of the casing.
Next is removing the top half of the hard drive magnet.
Then I just lifted the top magnet off with a screwdriver.
To remove the read/write head first remove a sticker from the bottom of the casing(it should be one of the few things left of the bottom casing.) And unscrew that one.
After that, the head should just pop off. Just make sure that you dont try to remove the read/write head while it is still on the disks, you will not be able to remove it from there. Move the head toward the top of the drive and then pop it out.
Now just remove the last few screws from the bottom magnet and pop that out and you are done!
The Aftermath, plus about a dozen screws.
After you are done you can use the magnets (which are quite strong might I add) to hold up just about anything magnetic. I would also like to thank kait, my girlfriend, for the actual idea of using my finger to remove the last screw from the upper lid. None of my screwdrivers quite fit.
happy disassembly!
-Philip
