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 Kompu Kid <deguza@hotmail.com> wrote:

>We finally took the rubber strips off, cut too small strips from a
>rubber band and wedged them on the two sides of the hard drive, just
>around the edges as a temporary stopgap measure.

>Any suggestions as to how to hold the original rubber strips in place?

Duct tape :) at the corners that you insert the HD into it's
receptacle?

Also while this may seem far fetched, you might put the HD in the
freezer overnight, it won't shrink the rubber but it will the HD.
which you might be able to slide into it's holder.

It's that or use a blow torch to heat the receptacle, increasing it's
size so the HD will slide in - the error of this approach should be
obvious :)

I don't know what the drive looks like so I'm posting blind.

>What would happen if my friend were to operate this computer without
>the original rubber strips but just with the strips of rubber bands at
>the very edges?

I would imagine the rubber strips are there for vibration dampening,
The bands would work, the strips would work better.
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