Basically a friends laptop hdd died a few months back, he recently posted this video:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z63zLvqJmNc[/media]
Apparently he was just going about his day when windows froze and it refused to boot up again, then it started making that noise. he opened it up and recorded the video to get a clearer picture of what was going on, but as I've never done any research into the subject I was wondering if someone here could tell me in detail what broke and why.
On an entirely unrelated note, while viewing this on youtube in html5 mode on google chrome I got no sound, why? Leaving the html 5 trial made it work again.
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The arm somehow is bended to far downwards, thats the problem.
[QUOTE=Kialtia;26079669]The arm somehow is bended to far downwards, thats the problem.[/QUOTE]
But it received no sudden impacts prior to seizing to function.
Doesn't matter it's definately broken now.
[QUOTE=Encryption;26082915]Doesn't matter it's definately broken now.[/QUOTE]
I know it's permanently broken, I wanna know what exactly happened so I can learn something.
Read the damn thread.
It broke. Everything looks to be in it's usual place... it's just not working for an unexplainable reason. Welcome to the world of hard drives.
The arm looks like it had been scraping the disk, it happens
Augh it's like nails of chalkboard.
That's what's called a [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_crash]head crash[/url].
Somehow, something disrupted the cushion of air that the read/write heads usually float on, and they touched the surface of the platter. It generally means instant death for a harddrive.
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