There's nothing you can do by opening it. If it's clicking that means it's unable to read the disc due to a hardware failure. I've had some luck placing the whole drive in the freezer for a couple hours and then copying the important stuff off immediately but if that doesn't work either pay the $ for professional recovery or throw away the drive because I can guarantee you won't fix it by opening it.
has anyone ever pinched the fingers ? i bought some of these neodynium "warning extra strong" magnets from hardware store and skeptical i tried to pinch my fingers and have had no luck, well if that is the label to give such actions :)
Well, they want 1000 dollars or more.
What about putting it in the freezer while I use it?
Would't the heat of the drive and the coldness of the freezer, or fridge, which I could adjust if someone gave me some guidance, keep it at a steady rather cold temp?
The flat wire is long enough, and the power wire can be any length I want it to be.
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I've practically tried to glue my fingers together with super-glue, and had no luck there either. :)
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They're not used to make it difficult for you to get inside, but because it reduces manufacturing cost. Those screws don't slip off the bit, and you don't have to apply any pressure to the driver to prevent "cogging". They're just perfect for torque-limited power drivers in high-volume manufacturing situations.
And as others have mentioned, they come out very nicely using a properly-sized flat blade. Sometimes a hex wrench will fit, too.
Isaac
NO! Do NOT do that.
Some of those magnets can crash together fast enough to shatter. If they shatter, the small pieces (also sharp), do not have enough mass to be strongly attracted to whatever is left of the magnet. They can fly away at very high velocity, and cause serious injuries (to eyes, for example).
Isaac
Or a little work with a strong, small flat blade, to bend it back and forth until it breaks off.
Isaac
Also can cause death if ingested, google for the recent news reports of a toddler killed by magnets from Bionicle if I remember correctly, attracted to each other through neighboring bends in the child's intestine.
According to Folkert Rienstra :
Not by opening the drive... About the only thing that someone that doesn't have major equipment can accomplish by opening it up is to replace the drive electronics. Some of our support people are quite good at resurrecting drives by swapping the electronics (they keep electronics sets from head-crashed drives). But the OPs problem is not the electronics.
Perhaps most of these types of failures (drive clicking - retries) can be "fixed" by causing the drive to write on the bad blocks, and then doing a fixdisk or equivalent. I'm familiar with somewhat older gear under UNIX, where you take the sector number from the error messages and use "dd" or write a small program to write a single block over the bad sector. Then run the file system repair utilities (ie: fsck) to clear/reclaim it.
These days with smarter controllers, they sometimes automatically self-repair (spare out the bad sector), or a simple low-level reformat of the drive will fix or spare it out. You might find a suitable procedure on the manufacturer's web site.
According to mm :
You did know that the US Congress was mandating digital-only TV (I think) April 2009 didn't you?
Screwdriver smugglers.
i suppose i am luckier than you for i have super'd my fingers together
but i was not trying
Doesnt explain why they used the tamperproof and hard to get 5 lobe format.
"John McGaw" wrote
Try again.
No, it's not. This is a five-pointed star. Torx screws have six points.
No Torx Plus in that set, just Security Torx. Torx Plus is different from Torx, and Torx Plus TR is different from either.
You haven't tried big/strong ones, then. I have some that are 1" diameter and 1/4" thick, and I guarantee you that they'll give you a pinch you will not soon forget! They are also extremely difficult to seperate, once locked-together.
Ignore the SCSI troll.
That date keeps slipping, and can be expected to slip some more. It was in 2006 once.
There was an article here once called "my outlaw toilet". Maybe it's hiding screwdrivers.
That doesn't work because of a weakness in the system. The outer layer of skin comes off too easily.
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That's my prediction too. Congress critters are going to rile up a hornet's nest when OTA analog TV disappears and the station points to Congressman Klutz.
Illegal allen wrenches? ;-)
If I need one, it's across the borDER to Canuckistan. Hmm, I guess I'll need a passport...
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