Modding HD windows?

im going to window (attempt) a hard drive, preferrably one i can actually use though, i have 4 candidates for windowing

a useless 3gb seagate drive
a 30gb seagate drive
a 40gb maxtor drive
an 80gb mactor drive (7200rpm d740x)

i was going to try it on the 3gb one but then thought it would be a waste because i have no reason to need it. i may do it anyway as a practice

so that leaves the other 3
the first 2 are both 2+ years old so im thinking that they are pretty small platters, as i know that newer drives with massive platters are VERY tough to do this to
the 80gb one would be great if i could window it as it is actually usable but it is newer, and while im willing to take a risk of it dying, if there is no chance i wont bother

which is more likely to not die?

maybe if it works out ill try it on my 15k drive

 

theres always a risk but you just have to make sure that you get no dust inside

 

Generally, the larger the disk, the easier it is to screw up With more platters closer together, there is more chance of something going wrong.

I would window the 3gb seagate, and put only the windows swap file on it so it still is active. plus it saves space on your primary drive I did this with a 1gb drive. ~David

 

the iccle one is noisy and slow though, i wouldnt use it at all
i use a 10k scsi drive for my all my swap files and scratch disks

what do you reckon the likelyhood of windowing the 80gb one is, as that is really the only one i would actually use for the sake of using rather than use because its purdy

maybe ill do all 4 of them, im bound to do one properly (or screw p all 153gb of them)

is there a specific cut off point that drives just dont window
i know that mashie killed 2 in y2k bug

 

no not particularly you just have to be very careful-- mashie was trying to put big bubbles in the Y2K bug project which is v. difficult... and you must make sure that NO dust gets on the surface... even if it is ruined you could always do the old HDD activity meter mod... with it ...

 

Has anyone actually had a drive last more than a couple of months after windowing it?

*n

 

exactly, i meant to ask that in my first post

 

Do it to the 3gb and the 30gb. Don't push it and go for the 40gb or 80gb. You just want bragging rights, not an expensive paper weight.
If you are doing it so people can see it, then just do the 3gb one, put it so you can only see that one and just make a little circuit so it looks like the drive is being used. Easy and effective.