{"id":5577,"date":"2011-03-23T20:49:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T03:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=5577"},"modified":"2011-03-25T18:26:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T01:26:36","slug":"dead-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/03\/23\/dead-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a trip to the Apple Store Genius Bar to confirm my fears, I spent about an hour replacing the hard drive in my mom’s old eMac (yes, eMac) only to have the computer not recognize it. Need to take it out back.<\/p>\n

\"My <\/a>
My mom’s 2005 eMac. Unopened. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"First <\/a>
First thing removed: bottom memory panel <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Next, <\/a>
Next, I removed the two small feet <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"With <\/a>
With a hex wrench I had to remove 7 screws with giant flat heads <\/div> <\/div>
\"Three <\/a>
Three bottom screws removed <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"After <\/a>
After carefully disconnecting the power button connector, the case was removed <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Five+ <\/a>
Five+ years of gathered dust <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Mostly <\/a>
Mostly cleaned with a view of the next step <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Disconnected <\/a>
Disconnected the fan <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Removed <\/a>
Removed the inner Farrady cage <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"The <\/a>
The inner guts more or less exposed <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"A <\/a>
A few more screws and moving the controller board, heat sink and hard drive away <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Finally <\/a>
Finally see access to the hard drive <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"View <\/a>
View of the separated CRT portion and actual computer guts <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"The <\/a>
The mother board and hard drive <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Hard <\/a>
Hard drive removed and ready to be swapped <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a trip to the Apple Store Genius Bar to confirm my fears, I spent about an hour replacing the hard drive in my mom’s old eMac (yes, eMac) only to have the computer not recognize it. Need to take it out back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1s2SN-1rX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5609,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577\/revisions\/5609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}