Hi, does anyone know of any supplier which sells internal hard drive parts? (Like actuator arm)
Thanks!
Hard disk can only be dismantled in a clean room. You can't do it at home.
he can try actually. by chance if any dust particle do not happen to settle on the teeny weeny micron gaps between the actuator readout tip and the platter, and he somehow manages to have the correct tool head sna d trouque equippment to dismantle the actuator arm from the drive and replace with a new one whtou compromising the sensitive cabling along the way - why not?
the aim of clean room is not to have dust settling on the platter face, since when the platter spin the sensitive gap between the readhead tip and platter read face if is obstructed by particles or dust or reasonable size may scracth and damage tthe platter, making datda unreadable, e.g as in creating a bad sector.
However google online there are still people who managed to open up the hdd and close it back and get it to run like no tomorrow. iwonder why, hope the vacumm and air difference before and after case open negligible.
People have told me that the platter itself acts like a fan which could spin-off the dust, so I just need a pair of surgical gloves and a torque driver to work on the drive
like i wrote you can try. there are people claiming that drive opened up not in a clean room can still work after close back cover. but i think the drive has to be sealed in a vacuum, and assmebled in cleanroom toavoid even tiny dust between the read head and platter. you can try. and i know you haven't since if you had you wouldn''t be writting here again.
Well thanks anyway.
100% your drive is going to crash.
Singapore is a fucking dusty place.