[MizztaPeppa]

Originally Posted by MizztaPeppa

thats what i said before, now i opened up my hard drive and completely disassembled it to see if there were any stuck arms or motors not turning I SHOULD TAKEN PICTURES SORRY GUYS! and ive narrowed it down to the center of the drive closer to the side that DOESNT have the power and data connections. The center of platters the drives themselves. i took them all out and put my finger where the vibrations come from but i have NO IDEA how to get in to that area its like in the middle of the case, you would probably have to BREAK the case to get in there and even after that i have no idea what could possibly be done. im gonna try to look for some hard drive diagrams on the net.

I was also wandering if i took the actual platters (drives) out and but them in another maxtor do you think they would read???? this is one of the only things i could possibly think of to do without sending it off somewhere.

please someone email me at MizztaPeppa@hotmail.com or myspace message me at myspace.com/mizztapeppa THANX!!!

OK! i found a couple pictures to help show what im talking about the correct term is spindle as seen here



seems like the bottom of the spindle is the cause of all this. Why i dont know? heres another pic of it with the platters removed which you can kinda see.



i Shall look into this spindle thing.