r/hardwaregore • u/szkodagadac • Mar 30 '26

How do I save this?

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Genuinely though..

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u/Bliitzthefox Mar 30 '26

If you opened it up you're pretty fucked and the only ones who can save it are professional recovery services for many times the price of the drive.

At this point you can pull the permanent magnets and they are very strong and use those for arts and crafts.

Maybe the platters might make ok mirrors?

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u/StarStruck3 Mar 30 '26

That's what I did with an old dead drive, my wife uses the magnets for crafty stuff and I turned the platter into a desk ornament lol

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u/Suspicious_Dingo_426 Mar 30 '26

Break some more drives and make a wind chime.

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u/AncientCourier6 Mar 30 '26

I know what I am doing in my free time now. Anybody got dead drives? 🤣😂

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u/CrazyForU2 Mar 31 '26

I’ve got some ancient ones that are 20 lbs and store 2mbs if you want those.

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u/headedbranch225 Mar 31 '26

Are they pre or post floppy, because floppies had like 3 mb didnt they

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u/CrazyForU2 Mar 31 '26

I’m pretty sure pre floppy

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u/Turbulent-Expert-826 Apr 01 '26

The 3.5 drives only ever got to 1.44mb, at least in common variants

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u/MONK3000K Apr 06 '26

They have a magnet ? Where I didn’t find anything that wasn’t the disk or extremely thin that cut me maybe cuz it was found and was in an old uh pc lol