Ferrix97
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It seems like 2015 is the year of failing drives and stuck heads, I've made a very quick and rough video showing how to squeeze out some extra life from stuck drives. This trick also works on the bigger "brick" drives usually found in earlier macs like the SE ad SE/30. And also works on SCSI PowerBook Conner drives too!
The only thing you have to avoid is touching the disk, it also recommended to rotate the disk while moving the heads, you don't need to do it in a dust-free environment since the capacity of each patter is quite low and the heads are huge compared to modern drives.
The drive in the video is a 40MB, if you have the 80MB variant, you'll see two disks and four heads, the 40MB has a fake disk and head arm on top.
The only thing you have to avoid is touching the disk, it also recommended to rotate the disk while moving the heads, you don't need to do it in a dust-free environment since the capacity of each patter is quite low and the heads are huge compared to modern drives.
The drive in the video is a 40MB, if you have the 80MB variant, you'll see two disks and four heads, the 40MB has a fake disk and head arm on top.