"buddd" wrote in message
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Hello,

I have a what I believe to be a physically damaged hard drive with
data on it. (My guess it is the heads). When I turn the drive on, one
hears a knocking sound for about 30 seconds and then the drive
automatically shuts off.

The data on the drive is not important enough to pay a professional to
fix it, and software recovery tools won't work.

I would like to take the opportunity to open and try repairing the
disk myself (as a learning process).

Any suggestions / recommendations?

Thanks,

buddd


Set up a new Primary HD and then hook your old HD up as a Secondary, you
might be able to get some of the data off it. After that I'd tear it open.

I have one that did the same thing, I was going to take mine a part too, but
I did'nt have the right size bit (tools).

Cheers,
Jim