Can I do anything with a messed up laptop HDD and battery?

[pg22]

I have a dell Inspiron 4150 and I just replaced the 1-year old battery. The battery now last about 30 minutes tops. I also have a 30GB HDD that just crapped out on me. Are these things worth anything or should I just toss them?

 

[stardust]

Toss, or open harddrive and make "martha stewart" christmas decorations.

 

[Black88GTA]

Subscribing . I have 3 dead (clicking) IBM 3.2GB lappy drives, and would like ideas on what to do with them....

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Black88GTA
Subscribing . I have 3 dead (clicking) IBM 3.2GB lappy drives, and would like ideas on what to do with them....

My IBM drive in my laptop clicks too... and it's not broken In fact, it's practically brand new.

 

[Black88GTA]

Heh...these ones are totally done. All 3 of them have the infamous scrape - click noise, and won't read . They've been sitting here in a little pile, and I've been wondering what to do with them. Hard drive baseball, perhaps .

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Black88GTA
Heh...these ones are totally done. All 3 of them have the infamous scrape - click noise, and won't read . They've been sitting here in a little pile, and I've been wondering what to do with them. Hard drive baseball, perhaps .

I wish I had a dead hard drive that I didn't care about... I'd take it apart to see exactly what everything looks like... I wonder how long it would take the head to crash if you took the cover off and started up the computer. Might be worth trying with an old 80 MB drive I have even though it still works =)

 

[Black88GTA]

I was reading a post on here somewhere recently, where someone did exactly that. They were running a hard drive in their PC with data on it without the top on :Q. I don't remember their reasoning for it. IIRC, the platter came loose from the motor, at full rotation speed, shot off the motor, and hit the mobo, killing it instantly. Then it bounced off of there and lodged itself in the case window, as they described it.

(This is a bad idea)

And I did take the top off of one of those HDs I have...nothing special in there really. Looked kind of like a fancy record player . I needed an insanely small T-5 bit to get the screws out though. No stores I went into had any, but I was able to get a little set of bits off Ebay for $5.95 shipped. The guy shipped em quick too, they were here in 3 days.

 

[MDE]

Middle of the thread.

 

[Black88GTA]

Originally posted by: MonkeyDriveExpress
Middle of the thread.

YES! That's the thread I'm talking about. Oh well, my account was close to what actually happened .