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JStrider · 05-21-2006, 11:22 PM

I've messed around with dead drives before... the easiest way to make it run constantly that I've found

I did this with an old 10gig seagate drive... not sure what your working with... but I imagine it would be pretty similar with all drives.

remove the pcb from the bottom... but keep it intact, you'll need it later

strip everything from the inside, heads, magnets, chips, boards whatever... then reattach the bottom circuit board and plug it in to a PSU

then you should have constantly spinning platters

depending on what your trying to do you could leave it like that... or pull it all out of the hard drive enclosure and solder the motor leads directly to the board or whatever...

I did this with a seagate drive

05-21-2006, 11:22 PM	#5 (permalink)
JStrider Poo-tee-weet? Location: The Woodlands, TX	I've messed around with dead drives before... the easiest way to make it run constantly that I've found I did this with an old 10gig seagate drive... not sure what your working with... but I imagine it would be pretty similar with all drives. remove the pcb from the bottom... but keep it intact, you'll need it later strip everything from the inside, heads, magnets, chips, boards whatever... then reattach the bottom circuit board and plug it in to a PSU then you should have constantly spinning platters depending on what your trying to do you could leave it like that... or pull it all out of the hard drive enclosure and solder the motor leads directly to the board or whatever... I did this with a seagate drive __________________ -=JStrider=- ~Clatto Verata Nicto