Putting my hard drive back together

Okay my laptop wasn't booting took the hard drive out, It's a IBM travelstar, something was jingling around inside so I opened it up and this little arm with a small box on the end fell out, so that must be the problem cause everything else is tight in place. So where does this little arm go.

 

Yeah, you might as well throw the hard drive away now. However, if the arm was loose, there was probably nothing you could have done anyway. You'll need to buy another laptop hard drive.

 

damn it just tell me how do put the thing back on, there's no harm in trying.

 

D3m3nt3d, Wyatt_Earp, and Halo have already said the drive is no longer any good. You are in need of a new drive now.

 

but I did open it in a clean room no dust and have keep it covered and if it doesn't work I would at least like to put it together for learning purposes.

 

Even if you did manage to get the arm back on, the exposure of the hard drive to dust and the sheer difficulty of getting the arm in exactly the right place would make the task impossible and pointless.

 

I say go for it if it works ill give you my old laptop harddrive thats obly 2 gig!i cant seen to find anyway to connect it as a external harddrive to get all my crappy info off of it!

 

I want to go for it i just need to now where it goes cause it dosen't appear to fit anywhere

 

I just can't afford a new hard drive and I want my games back.

 

"but I did open it in a clean room no dust and have keep it covered and if it doesn't work I would at least like to put it together for learning purposes."

No, by clean room, we mean, an industrially clean room. Like absolutely no dust particles in the air and you have to wear hair nets and special suits to go in.

There is ZERO % chance of the drive working again.

 

Interesting! Really it is.
Someome hardware peeps wearing full hazmad suit in a 100% germ free atomosphere! I wonder if they let walk n with a viddy camera to watch the whoe thing!

 

This may be of interest to you:

http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20050530/index.html

 

Damn thats my hard drive in the picture. does anyone know were I can get a picture of the inside of one.

 

Or GIS ...

 

Hmmm, here is a guide of sorts with some fool adding a windows to the hdd itself. Insane, but neat...I guess:

http://web.telia.com/~u58612941/

 

Actually there IS one thing that you can do with the drive now that's its been opened, the take out the voice coil magnets...rare earth magnets, very cool.

Or just set the drive on your desk with out the lid, cool techie decoration.

 

i dont remember who it was, and im too lazy to scroll down again, but halo just pwnt you man...im srry

but anyway, you hd is done. just start saving your money for a new one.

 

What I most enjoying of this thread is not just the fact that he opened the HDD initially or the mere fact that he is now trying to put it back together... but the fact that he wants it back together so that he can play his games.

Funny... and I am not trying to be mean when I say that some people just should not be allowed to use hand tools much less be allowed around computers.