Range of technical difficulty *POLL*

[Philippine Mango]

On a scale of 1-10, what would be the difficulty of reassembling a floppy drive be? What about a powersupply? Check the poll and see what others think!

BTW I feel proud today that I was able to reassemble a disassembled floppy drive (wasn't working for about 2 months).

 

[Heisenberg]

Unless you've got a cleanroom in your house, it's next to impossible to reassemble a hard drive and have it work.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

what do you mean reassemble? like you have all the pieces of it sitting on a table and you rebuild it?

 

[Philippine Mango]

Yes, I guess.

 

[Philippine Mango]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Unless you've got a cleanroom in your house, it's next to impossible to reassemble a hard drive and have it work.

There was a guy online who made a drive window in a fujitsu 2GB HDD and it still works to this day. As soon as he was done opening up the drive, he put it in a plastic container and then worked outside with the cover, seems like it's possible. I opened up a broked fujitsu 2GB LAPTOP HDD and it only got dust on it like 10 minutes later...

 

[Philippine Mango]

*bumpified

 

[nycxandy]

Reassemble or reinstall?

 

[eelw]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Unless you've got a cleanroom in your house, it's next to impossible to reassemble a hard drive and have it work.

Todays HD are no longer sealed tight. They are no longer as sensitive to head crashes due to dust. I took my old 4GB drive and removed the cover. Runs fine with the cover off. Obviously, I won't be placing any important data on this HD, but it does indeed work in a non-sterile environment.