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Mechanic688 Breaking Down a 5" Hard... 07-20-2011, 08:03 PM
Mechanic688 Removing the read/write heads... 07-20-2011, 08:17 PM
parrothead Thanks much for putting this... 07-21-2011, 05:32 AM
newattitude I've never seen a hard drive... 07-21-2011, 07:41 AM
Mechanic688 newattitude, That hard drive... 07-21-2011, 05:54 PM
Billiard MD In regards to the disk(s)... 07-21-2011, 08:02 PM
injunjoe Nice work 688! I wonder... 07-22-2011, 02:12 PM
Mechanic688 The platinum is recoverable... 07-21-2011, 09:22 PM
KzScrapper All these tutorials that have... 07-22-2011, 04:08 AM
Mechanic688 Don't want you too motivated,... 07-22-2011, 07:23 AM
Mechanic688 It doesn't matter how they... 07-22-2011, 07:36 PM
wdaddy I destroy hard drives for a... 08-03-2011, 10:08 AM
fiat128 I didn't know those platters... 08-03-2011, 12:23 PM
Mechanic688 They all have motors, that's... 08-05-2011, 11:56 PM
bluemeate i read that hitting the... 08-27-2011, 12:37 AM
Mechanic688 Your right if your only... 08-27-2011, 10:36 AM
newattitude Heh, just came across an old... 09-15-2011, 02:45 PM
GeorgeB Yeah, even small things of... 09-15-2011, 03:40 PM
Mechanic688 Yep, that's why I called them... 09-15-2011, 06:17 PM
Torker Man I think we have all suffered... 10-23-2011, 04:52 AM
Kenshiro This makes me reminiscent of... 10-25-2011, 07:13 PM
scrappy888 Good spirit..stealing is the... 01-27-2013, 11:54 PM
Jillyenator I've learned to keep those HD... 02-28-2014, 11:14 PM
happyscraper Don't put them in your... 03-01-2014, 06:23 PM
Jillyenator Lol. I never considered that... 03-01-2014, 08:36 PM
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    Breaking Down a 5" Hard Drive

    Just thought I'd do a pictorial on a 5" hard drive like I did on monitors. That way someone can decide if their worth breaking down or selling whole. I used a 5" for example cause the parts were bigger for picture taking. Today's hard drives have the same basic parts, just smaller.
    This is the 5" H.D.

    This is with the cast alum. top cover removed. Some tops are S.S. Some even have a piece of steel glued to an alum cover.

    This is the removal of the circuit board on the bottom. Usually about 4 screws to remove.

    Unscrewing the platters. Older H.D.'s only have a couple, big gig hard drives have quite a few.
    Removing the platters after removing the screws.



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