Comments on: Quantum Fireball EX Hard Drive

By: James

James — Mon, 26 May 2008 10:11:12 +0000

My girlfriend recently smashed my laptop off the floor in anger because I found out she was having an affair so I left her and she did that to my laptop, now my laptop is obliterated, the harddrive powers on but it just clicks and makes some weird whirring noises does anybody reckon it would be safe and open it up just to see if its stuck, as I have read somewhere sometimes its just the arm inside which can get stuck. Its vital I try to get my data recovered as it contains vital things for my medical history, my job, and my course work which I had stored on there for a degree I am working towards, anybody have any advice?

By: Buck

Buck — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:27:53 +0000

can you take the platter from a bad HDD and put it into another working HDD - both are Barracuda 7200.7 80GB

Thanks, Buck

By: coondog

coondog — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:24:42 +0000

Ive hacked a hard drive apart and if you remove the green circuit board on the back you’ll see a set of contacts nearest the power and IDE connectors if you take the speaker wires from a stereo playing music and you touch the wires to the 2 end connectors that were under the circuit board try them all till you hear music when you hear music solder some wires to these 2 points then you can hook up your new hard drive speaker, awesome teardown and if you want to see videos of computer hard drives acting as speakers head over to http://www.youtube.com and search hard drive speaker and youll find some on there that are mine im coondogtheman1234 on youtube

By: sujay

sujay — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:45:41 +0000

saving hard disk data… might just work. had a laptop hard disk which fell down (was being used as a mobile storage device). opened it up, and found the platter motor seemed stuck. just forced it free, without touching the platters, and plugged in with the ide to usb converter to my pc (hdd was open at the time). retrieved some data (around 13gigs were accesible, from a 20gig hard disk). motor was a dc motor (servo driven, i am told), and this is supposed to be the type of motors in more recent hard disks. my old Quantum fireball had a nice stepper, though

By: Potatoswatter

Potatoswatter — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:06:50 +0000

HDD’s are kept clean by a dust filter but aren’t vacuum sealed. I imagine that working under an AC vent with a fresh filter would greatly reduce the chances of breaking a working drive — but who wants to take apart a working drive??

Anyway, congrats on the disassembly but I gotta beg to differ whether the big piece with the platters still inside is really taken apart yet…

Cheers

By: Jordan

Jordan — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:46:17 +0000

I took the HDD from my old PC apart with a friens, we didn’t have the torx screwdirver, so we smashed it up a bit and it still wouldn’t open! It put up more of a fight than a safe I’m sure of it.

It was fun though!