IBM laptop HDD

Anyone familiar with the IBM floppy HDD?

Basically,looking at the drive you have two halfs, bottom half in black and
top half in silver.what I want to know is if I was to remove the silver
section, will that give me access to the disk plates inside OR not.

Thks

 

"IBM floppy HDD" ... don't think there is such a thing.

 

Opps, thanks for that.

I meant IBM HDD and not FLOPPY.

 

I'm sure that would probably give you access to the disk(s) or
platter(s).

Whhhhyyy would you want to do that? Besides to make a Xmas ornament
outta the drive?

 

I bought this HDD casing,and the HDD I have is just slightly higher then the
case. I think the casing is 9mm in height and the HD is 12mm in height.So
looking at the HD I though if that silver part does nothing,but act as a
plate, then I was hoping to remove it and then it will fit into the HDD
casing.

 

If you open up the hdd in anything but a *clean room* type environment,
you'll trash it.

 

so i take it, that silver part of the laptop hdd is the top cover and if i
was to open it, it will give me access to the disks.

 

Taking a moment's reflection, tim mused:
|
| so i take it, that silver part of the laptop hdd is the top cover and if i
| was to open it, it will give me access to the disks.

It depends. A picture would probably be helpful. My laptop has a metal
plate that the hard drive screws into which then mounts inside the laptop.
Though, when mounted to this plate, it is obvious the plate is not "part of
the hard drive."

So, is the silver bit on your drive cohesively attached to the hard
drive, or can it simply be removed by undoing a couple of screws? What is
the model number of the drive? That would allow us to go and have a look on
the web at the thing.

 

<piggy-backed>

Tim, the hdd should be able to be removed, no problem. But if you take
it apart til it looks like this:

http://www.laptopshop.co.uk/images_big/10gt.jpg

it'll be a demo.

 

Its an IBM, model: DADA-25120. There are 6 screws, 3 on each side (top) of
the drive. These screws are not the normal type,they are of like star type.

 

Ar right, not exactly what I am hoping it to be. I am hoping that silver
section is just some kinda plate siting on top of the black section.

 

Those star screws are what is used to seal the drive itself. If you were to
remove them, you would see what GregM gave a link to for a picture and
relegate the drive to junk.
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/prod/6gtprod.htm has all the info on the drive.

 

Ar dam. I was hoping thats what I would see. Cheers for that folks. BTW,
this drive I have it is 12mm,right?

 

12.5mm, actually. From the specs:
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/travel/6gtdata.pdf