Re: hard drive repair

Check the following thread about a week ago. I hope others have some
suggestions to help you...

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.basics/browse_thread/thread/977d27d0f9a592d5/072752b98c3d8771


"Ben Galvin" <asd@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to repair my crashed 200Gb Western Digital hard disk
> (WD2000JB). A few days ago it started making a strange buzzing noise, then
> about 10 minutes later died completely. Naturally, I had forgotten to
> backup the contents of the drive (lesson learned). I tried a few hard
> drive recovery services but they were all quoting about $2500 for recovery
> of a hard disk with a mechanical fault - a bit steep for me.
>
> Ok, so I figured I may as well have a go myself - nothing to lose. I setup
> up a 'clean room' in my bathroom (cleaned it out, used an ion generator
> and the hot steam from the shower to temporarily settle the dust down). I
> know its nothing compared to a professional one, but it's the best I can
> do. I opened the hard drive for about 30 seconds, enough to determine that
> the platters couldn't be moved around by hand. I opened another similar
> hard drive (with no data on it) and was able to move the platters easily,
> so I'm assuming there must be something wrong with the bearings in the
> hard disk. I've managed to get hold of another (almost) identical
> motor/bearing assembly, and I'm going to have a go at swapping them over.
>
> My problem is that my hard drive has 2 platters inside it (basically like
> 2 CDs stacked on top of each other with a 1cm gap between them), but I
> don't know if I need to ensure that they stay perfectly aligned when I
> moved them to the new spindle or not (imagine rotating the top cd around a
> vertical axis by 10 degrees - the data would no longer be sychronised
> between the 2 platters). There are no marks or holes to tell the
> orientation of the platters, so it would be very hard to take them both
> off one spindle, and put them on to the new one and preserve this
> relationship exactly.
>
> Does anyone know if I need to do this, or have any other advise?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
>


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