On 10/05/14 10:18, Brad Rogers wrote: > Opening the drive itself can only be done in a clean room > otherwise the disk *will* be destroyed.
You can just about get away with opening a hard disk in a clean zip-seal freezer bag (making a very small "clean room"). I did this when modding an old drive to have a perspex window on the cover, keeping the drive in the sealed bag for some time while attacking the cover. It passed all checks once reassembled, though I haven't used it recently as it's IDE. Perhaps I should find a USB-IDE converter so I can play with it as an external drive. Wouldn't fancy my chances at repairing a drive while it's in a bag though - the one I used was working properly before I opened it. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
