i'll hope that "time" stays my friend.

occ countdown:D

plug in a large hdd vu metet, that would be cool

btw i have on for sale ;)

little bit more info please:D

edit: http://www.gideontech.com/content/articles/205/1 like this?

nope with 7 ( i think ) leds

like this? :)
http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=get...=49&articID=36

don't ever window your hdd if you realy need him :(

glad i can still take of my files :)

but some sectors are damaged.
tomorrow i'll scan it completly

:(

best way to open HDD is in bathroom, leave hot shower running for 10-15min. the open door of bathroom, wait 5min, go in and open window of HDD, and quickly reseal it with the new window.

minimizes dust on the platters , which is likely the cause here of the error

no dust on the platters :)

Dust particles can be smaller then your eye can see:)
http://www.safetyline.wa.gov.au/inst...07/l107_01.asp

I thought there was a proggie to let damaged HD's move their "arm", so you could use an old HD for the looks only? That way you only have to sacrifice an ide or sata slot for the very good looking mod.
In my opion the mod is too delicate to try on a recent and still working HD. However, hats off for the brave...
And a great mod, Jort. I wouldn't change the front as it is now.

Great improvement of your case...:ws:

Can you please find that name of that program please, that would be very helpfull.

It seems that only my c: is damaged.
d:, e:, f are still intact.

Does any one knows a VERY good scanning program so i can locate the bad sector and "maybe" insulate it.

Yeah i'll keep on modding my case even i lost some 500€ because i was dragged into the [M]adness.:D

One thin 4 sure, i'll NEVER make that mistake again,
or it must be a very sunny day that w'll convince me again to do that.

:)

yep :super:

for recovery

GetDataBack for NTFS

for insulation, well, I would suggest you remove all data from the disk and do a low level format.

date is recovered,
what is just a low format.
it that something in cmd or just a complete format?

googled it and found a bit info about it.
i'll do it later this day with powermax(utill
of maxtor)

*edit* you beat me to it :)

i have some :mad: news.
wanne to post about 45 min ago, no post

just a windows install of half a day ago.

oke reinstall then, for a reason he doesn't want to install on my 200GB sata.
(c: was not formatted, did something with partition magic.)
because i have a damaged or bla bla c:
so format c, install windows and it WORKS.

thats good news isn't it:ws:

so i'll test some more this evening:king:


thats 1/2 fixed, still 1 to go :super:

hehehe, I'm happy for you jort. Just the thought of loosing some expensive hardware is enough to keep me pondering all night :)

yeah but some very weird stuff is going on here :rolleyes:

I said i format my c: and installed windows on it.
Something is not right here, it is been formatted but no windows on it :^D

So about 1.30 h ago i rebooted and suddenly he saids => ntldr is missing

So i started to do some sleeving, then after that i put my pc on, still the error.
Went into bios changed something about bootdevice (80gb first) and he boots

:puke: wth is that :^D

you formatted the drive, didn't install an os and were still able to boot from it?

after a reboot it says ntldr missing

i suppose the 80 gig has an os installed?

sinterklaas things you've been naughty and he brought you dust, and lots og it.

you can search them with a microscope ;)

good luck :^D

think it's time to sleep

maybe yes.
catch you guys later this day :^D.

;)

do you have a movie of the HDD in good light in action?

you mean just daylight?
i'll make one @ a second

edit=>lol i'll just put my beamer on it :ws:

here it is @ full copying

http://upload.pio.be/pics/714/moving_hdd.mpg

is that moving enough:^D

how about a defrag? or try to make the head move slowly from outer to inner cirlce.. hmmm aha!

[g]HDtach[/g]

fast moving platter

slow moving platter


:mad: :mad: :mad:

damn need faster upload:D

ps @ occ looping that slowly movingggggggggggggggggg
:drool: :drool:

very nice :D

=-)
:leet: :p

Looks cool Jort :super:

:ws: :ws: :ws:

i am starting to write the how-to of the hdd.
bought a new 80G hdd today for 52€(worth to destroy ey?):p
going to stick the cover again with desent glue now, the epoxy came off :( don't understand that.
just because its "too" hard i guess.
i am going to apply some tec7 to it ;)

please take a look at some other windowing guides on how to prevent dust getting onto the drive platters;

afaik in your bathroom, let a hot shower run for 10min; then turn it off; wait 5min, go in with HDD , open up cover, do the necassary cutting and place it back on :)

no cutting is going to happen.
just changing covers :D

edit: going to suck the hdd vacuum, to take less risks.
going to glue the plexi on the cover first and i'll change them tomorrow.

That rocks. The cuts look a little rough, but overall, that's a great, great modding project. I'd give it a 10 outta 10.