Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/07

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Subject: [Leica] Cleaning a Hard Drive
From: jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Thu Sep 7 09:53:48 2006
 
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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