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From: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man)8/28/2016 11:42:56 AM
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Need some advice. I am making a video on how a hard drive operates, its going to be an open drive, the commands will be format, read, write, park heads.

I screwed up one hard drive when I failed to remove the screw in the hard drive actuator, I bent the lid up a bit putting force on the actuator and now that hard drive is shot.

So I took another hard drive apart and removed the white label and removed all the screws and the drive works perfectly open with no cover on.

I did some tests like copying a 175MB file and the heads hardly moved. I then viewed some photos on the drive and I could get the heads to move. I deleted the 175MB fie and there almost no movement.

Any way to make the heads move when writing? What kind of files would make it make the heads move more than they are now?
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