lol sounds like crap to me.haha never heard a hardrive sound like that.heard it grind like nutts on my dad's old p1 with 96mb ram fully upgraded but now he has a new one.but i never heard his hardrive sound like that lol.oh yeah how did you record that?

Heh, it's actually a bit worse after I opened it... Something probably got knocked off and was really making it grid. No matter, I was about to toss that drive anyway. Oh, and that sound after it spins up...thats not it thinking, that was just it sitting there...

Recording it was very simple...I just took my video camera and recorded it...so if you want video of it, I can dump that as well :P

if u dont want it, i would be glad to take it off your hands

its good for teaching IT classes

Oops...sorry...it's a bit late now. I took the think apart, trying to find out what that horrible noise was... I should have other bad HDs around here somewhere if your really interested... I know a few of my old 1.5G had bad sectors that I couldn't LLF away...

Sounds like the spindle bearings failing.

The needle? we don't use no stinkin' needles! ;)
The fact that the platter was still shiny means little to no chance the heads crashed.
I think the lines you see in the pic, were reflections( the disks are flat within approx. 3 atomic layers, and so are very reflective)

yeah The_Other_One told me it is the reflection