Things to do to a dead hard drive?

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Originally Posted by mart_haj86

Well I gotta say I'm impressed with the suggestions, looks like me opening it up is a good option, if i just had a torx screw driver, hmmmmm well i could just drill out the screws. never realised they had really powerful magnets inside,, will give that a try :D

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The HDDs I've taken apart have always just used normal Philips / Crosshead screws...

The magnets make great fridge magnets!

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Originally Posted by schmunk

The HDDs I've taken apart have always just used normal Philips / Crosshead screws...

The magnets make great fridge magnets!

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Nope this ones deifnately torx, it will be far more satisfying drilling the screws out anyway :D

i just took mine dropped it a few times and hit it with a sledge hammer repeatitively; they are quite strong things tbh!

ian

If you open it up and hold a needle against the platter as you're spinning it, you'll be able to hear all your MP3s.

great i was looking at buying some technics turntables i just need another dead hard drive and a mixer :D

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Originally Posted by rox0r

Thermite baby, thermite :crazy: :cool:

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When I was at school we used to take one of those little Alu pencil sharpeners. Take the blade off it and start to shave the body of the sharpener down. The resulting pile of Alu filings would be EXTREMELY combustible.

Failing that a big pile of match heads would work well too.

And no I wasn't a pyro at school :D but my brother was.

See either the first or second episods of the broken. Hacking with ramzi. All you need to know, or you could just pull the magnets and make a gauss bb rifle.

the first thing you should do is check it aint under warranty :)

assuming it aint , open it up connect on old at psu to it, fill with isopropyl ignite apply power and seek shelter :mrgreen:

take it apart and plateau it as a cut-out .. i'll post a pci of someone's n64 controller done in the same way later so you get an idea of what i mean

i have 5 hdds that are all dead or hav capacity under 1gb and i screwed them all together and made a shelf lol :D looks pretty funky actually

mod it into a corby trouser press.

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Originally Posted by TiMeZeRo

i have 5 hdds that are all dead or hav capacity under 1gb and i screwed them all together and made a shelf lol :D looks pretty funky actually

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Got any pics dude? :D

flame thrower it? :p :mrgreen:

pr0p4g4nd4 when i put it back up ill get some pics *looks thru boxes for the shelf*

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Originally Posted by TiMeZeRo

pr0p4g4nd4 when i put it back up ill get some pics *looks thru boxes for the shelf*

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Cool, thanks mate. I'm looking for ideas to brighten up my office using old hardware :)

A cool tip I have is if you have any old heatsinks lying around and have any CD/DVDs in those thin platic sleeves you buy, you can use the heatsink to store the discs in between the fins on the HS!

ok seems mum thru out my hdd shelf so im guna make anuva one this weekend as i need somewhere to store my cds