random pics that YOU have taken.......

[911Rob]

That's one cute picture ^ poor pup, humiliated

Finally got off the page with Byron's feet.....

Kids playing with their grandmas hair...

[peppy]

I don't remember if I posted this. My wife and a friend with Margo Timmins of the Cowboy Junkies taken last month in Raleigh.

[Steve Carlton]

I like the CJs.

[SoCal911T]

[drcoastline]

[onlycafe]

a bottle of screw top and a stogie.........ahhh, life is good.

[slodave]

Hard drive surgery.

Good (donor) and bad drive.


Head unit removed from donor drive.


Removed head unit from bad drive.




Donor heads installed in new drive.


Unfortunately, I was not able to get the bad drive to work - same symptoms. I think one of the platters is bad.

[Tim Walsh]

Originally Posted by slodave

Unfortunately, I was not able to get the bad drive to work - same symptoms. I think one of the platters is bad.

Neat, but I wouldn't expect it to work, those drives are assembled in a clean room. And when you send them off to a good data recovery place, they disassemble them in a clean room to be read "manually". The head/platter clearance is stupid small(microns).

[kmhemi]

Quote: Unfortunately, I was not able to get the bad drive to work - same symptoms. I think one of the platters is bad.

I had a Western D drive die a while back. ...I swapped the control board off the bottom of the drive with an identical one and it ran fine..
I see a lot of W.D. drives fail in the field...more than I should....

[kmhemi]

Pic I took:
My current Project

[911Rob]

[TimT]

[Henry Schmidt]

In the beginning.......

[Racerbvd]

[slodave]

Originally Posted by Tim Walsh

Neat, but I wouldn't expect it to work, those drives are assembled in a clean room. And when you send them off to a good data recovery place, they disassemble them in a clean room to be read "manually". The head/platter clearance is stupid small(microns).

You'd be surprised what works. I did make a 'clean room' for this, but not to the extent that the pro's have. There is already a fair amount of debris in the drive. Also, the goal is to get the data off the bad drive and then to toss it, so opening the drive up won't cause too much harm.

I was successful in swapping out the head and ending up with the same problem the drive spins up, clicks five times and shuts down. Had the owner of the drive really wanted the data and was willing to pay through the nose, I'd have sent it off...

Originally Posted by kmhemi

I had a Western D drive die a while back. ...I swapped the control board off the bottom of the drive with an identical one and it ran fine..
I see a lot of W.D. drives fail in the field...more than I should....

Yup, this is where I started, but the new board showed the same symptoms. WD went downhill a number of years ago.

[David]

Some pelicans waiting for the scraps:

[cashflyer]

1 MAR 09
Moonville, SC
8:22pm local

[kach22i]

A Subie, interesting looking, is that all stock these days?

Right after I took this picture some big black SUV took a position about 3 inches off the back bumper.

Why?

[TimT]

That is the new Impreza body style, looks like a WRX, maybe an Sti can't tell..

[Racerbvd]