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Subject: [Leica] Cleaning a Hard Drive
From: chs2018 at med.cornell.edu (Chris Saganich)
Date: Thu Sep 7 10:28:54 2006
References: <000c01c6d29e$2ce10d10$6101a8c0@jimnichols>

It is the only way to get satisfaction.

At 12:53 PM 9/7/2006, you wrote:
>Several days ago there was a thread about cleaning a hard drive before 
>releasing it to salvage.  I decided to "clean" a failed Western Digital 
>Caviar drive because Dell is conducting a one-time pick-up of all brands 
>of computer hardware in Nashville on Saturday.  I tried the 8-pound hammer 
>approach and was amazed at the toughness of the metal top.  Because I did 
>not have a Torx driver small enough to open the case, I hammered it until 
>it split, then put in a vise and used some other tools to distort the disk 
>itself.  See the results below.
>
>Jim Nichols
>Tullahoma, TN USA
>
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Hard+Drive.jpg.html
>
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Chris Saganich, Sr. Physicist
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