Damn...Aborting mission.
Even though I had my MyBB t-Shirt on, it didn't help and this venture has been an Epic FAIL.
Failing points:
1) When i opened the HDD (or tried to) i kinda forced it open till I discovered there was 1 last screw underneath a silver stcker, which was connected to the HEAD ASSEMBLY!
2) I move the head around to try to get it off....didn't. i might have done some minor damage there....
3) i got a few dust particles on it, but managed to get a few off by blowing lightly on the platters, except for about 2 or 3 particles.
4) when I tried to get the screws out, i used a little ball of prestic cause i didn't wanna stick my fingers there, near the platters....it worked, but later i discovered that it somehow got onto the platters (aaarghh!) i removed it by using the screw driver but some foggy residue is still on there...not good.
5) when i plugged it in it was just DEAD! previously it would spin up but not anymore....damnit..i broke it.
It did however manage to spin up again, for some reason...it's just a bit more noisy now when it spins.
So, if I'm gonna change the platters i'm gonna make loads more mistakes and possibly (well, a good chance) screw up the working donor drive...
I still need to:
-Loosen a few screws
-Remove the Head assembly (Without them touching!
)
-remove the platters
*Do this twice
-Swap the platters
-put back heads
-do all this without anymore screw ups, if possible
-pray to god that it works
All in all i don't think i will be able to do it...you need to have the bawls of king kong and the steady hands of a surgion, not fogeting a clean enviroment cleaner than heaven.... this is just a little outta my league....
go ahead...make a fool of me you animals!
atleast i tried....
. They have to be exactly lined up to within the micrometer!