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Comment by exikyut

4 years ago

Just for the sake of clarification, where was the Torx screw located? The spindle axis or the drive arm axis? (Or somewhere else?) And how did you unstick the drive arm without allowing the head to contact platters? Just trying to visualize, and failing badly.

Also, awesome ;)

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moepstar  4 years ago

iirc, that was on the spindle axis - i only was gently pushing the drive arm near its supporting point to avoid it touching the platters (chances are i did make it touch the platters)...

Mind you, this was not in a clean room and i tried to be as quick as possible to not allow too much dust into the case..

Here's an online article, might even be the same drive (this was a external WD drive, not sure about the capacity, i think 500GB or 1TB): https://dataanalyzers.com/external-hard-drive-western-digita...