Theoretical Question
Mar. 26th, 2005 07:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupDoes "Stopped being an idiot" count as solving a problem? You see, for some time now I've known that the backup hard drive (which I haven't been using, because its full of things I've been meaning to get around to burning to CD...) is very firmly wedged into the removable drive caddy that it lives in. I've always considered this a minor problem, as the drive is supposed to stay in the caddy anyway.
The plan I've had (which has been accellerated by signs of imminent drive failure) was to buy a nice large drive equal in size to the old drive PLUS the size of the backu, and use it as a new backup. This would then free up the old backup drive as an extra drive for my system. Now, the first thing I'll want to do is make a backup of my main drive, which means the new drive has to go in the backup drive caddy, (well, not has, but that way I don't have to dismantle the computer) which means the old drive has to become unwedged.
So, I sat down to unwedge it. Up till now my theory has been that since the caddy is made of aluminum and the HD case is made of (presumably) some other metal, than during normal operation in the hot insides of my comuter, the caddy had expanded more than the drive and the drive had settled in, only to get squeezed tight when everything cooled back down.
I spent a few minutes prying at the drive in the caddy, to see if there was any wiggle room at all, but there wasn't. Then, when turning the caddy over, I noticed something. Mounting screws. At some point, in a fit of paranoia, I had attached the drive to the caddy with mounting screws so that I wouldn't worry about the drive rattling around in the caddy.
2 minutes with a screwdriver and the drive slid effortlessly out of the caddy. So, problem solved, but I feel kinda "Well, Duh!" right now.
The plan I've had (which has been accellerated by signs of imminent drive failure) was to buy a nice large drive equal in size to the old drive PLUS the size of the backu, and use it as a new backup. This would then free up the old backup drive as an extra drive for my system. Now, the first thing I'll want to do is make a backup of my main drive, which means the new drive has to go in the backup drive caddy, (well, not has, but that way I don't have to dismantle the computer) which means the old drive has to become unwedged.
So, I sat down to unwedge it. Up till now my theory has been that since the caddy is made of aluminum and the HD case is made of (presumably) some other metal, than during normal operation in the hot insides of my comuter, the caddy had expanded more than the drive and the drive had settled in, only to get squeezed tight when everything cooled back down.
I spent a few minutes prying at the drive in the caddy, to see if there was any wiggle room at all, but there wasn't. Then, when turning the caddy over, I noticed something. Mounting screws. At some point, in a fit of paranoia, I had attached the drive to the caddy with mounting screws so that I wouldn't worry about the drive rattling around in the caddy.
2 minutes with a screwdriver and the drive slid effortlessly out of the caddy. So, problem solved, but I feel kinda "Well, Duh!" right now.
