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Reverse Engineering

The document details an experiment on reverse engineering a laptop with a faulty hard disk, focusing on troubleshooting and upgrading hardware components. It outlines the tools and procedures used, including specialized screwdrivers and data cables, and discusses observations and methods for data recovery. The conclusion highlights the importance of safe hardware handling and unconventional data recovery techniques.

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Reverse Engineering

The document details an experiment on reverse engineering a laptop with a faulty hard disk, focusing on troubleshooting and upgrading hardware components. It outlines the tools and procedures used, including specialized screwdrivers and data cables, and discusses observations and methods for data recovery. The conclusion highlights the importance of safe hardware handling and unconventional data recovery techniques.

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Student’s Name:

Instructor’s Name:

Class Code:

Date:

Abstract

The experiment is about reverse engineering in a laptop machine with a faulty hard disk.

One is supposed to examine the laptop machine with a start problem. The matter subject at hand

is supposed to educate one on how to open up the hardware components in a machine with a

suspected faulty operating system. Components involved in the experiment at hand would entail

and highlight on the need for using tools in troubleshooting a problem and solving or either

upgrading system components from conclusive detail.

Procedure

The list of components that would be involved would include specialized screw drivers,

for this case in opening and loosening nuts. Other tools would include data cables e.g. address

bus cables necessary for driving a hard disk externally on a different hardware. Furthermore,

insulators for when dealing with electrical hardware in the testing of the hard disk. The formula

or approach for solving the issue would involve the writing down of parts and documenting the

parts as they are removed or detached from the hardware. Diagrams that would be involved in

the running of this experiment are like drawing the overall layout of the computer or laptop

motherboard and all its connectors to the hard disk mainly. This gives an architectural overview

of the components. The drawings formulate the charts the graphs gotten from analysis of the
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experiment at hand. Programs to be used involve solving the issue include an operating system

software and troubleshooting programs e.g. Linux OS.

The experiment involves the opening up of laptop disconnecting or detaching the hard disk from

the motherboard.

Observations

The specialized screw drivers, for this casein ease the opening and loosening of nuts. The

data cables e.g. address bus cables necessary for driving a hard disk externally on a different

hardware and aids I data transfer for backing up lost information. In addition, insulators for when

dealing with electrical hardware in the testing of the hard disk helped in prevention of

unnecessary electric shock. The formula or approach for solving the issue would involve the

writing down of parts and documenting the parts as they are removed or detached from the

hardware. Diagrams that would be involved in the running of this experiment are like drawing

the overall layout of the computer or laptop motherboard and all its connectors to the hard disk

mainly. This gives an architectural overview of the components. The drawings formulate the

charts the graphs gotten from analysis of the experiment at hand. Programs to be used involve

solving the issue include an operating system software and troubleshooting programs e.g. Linux

OS. The experiment involves the opening up of laptop disconnecting or detaching the hard disk

from the motherboard.

Discussion

Most laptop hard disk problems are unsolvable, i.e. once a laptop cannot boot from the

hard disk even after running a system diagnostic on the hard disk, and then the hard disk can be
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considered as crashed and failed. The only hope for salvaging anything would be through

retrieval of the data in the hard disk. Through social media and consultations, I discovered an

unknown method to help this.

One would wrap the hard disk in an airtight polythene bag and placing it a freezer for

about an hour or two. These low temperatures would contract the hard disk parts and reconnect

them temporarily, long enough to complete recovery.

Conclusion

This experiment enlightened me on the different non-mainstream ways of data recovery

and also the safest ways to handle computer hardware.

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