Dissecting the Xbox Part III

There is not much to say about this stage of the dissection that the pictures below cannot tell us, other than the two main objectives: 1. Successfully extract the laser diode. 2. Successfully take apart the hard drive.

This is where we get into some of the much more fun stuff, as you are finally taking apart the most delicate and valueable parts. From my experience, the more fancy and expensive the object you are taking apart, the better. This is what I discovered:

The hard drive is what I had read about: It was a large mirror-like disk complete with a reader.

This post will cover the disk reader anatomy and the overview. The next two post will dive into the laser diode extraction and the hard drive.