What you have there is a hard disk drive. In order to fit it into the CD drive (or Compact Disk drive) you need to first compact it! A hydraulic press is the preferred method.
Hard disks may fragment when one tries to compact them. It will need to be defragmented afterwards.
Softer disks are more amenable to be compressed into compact disks, floppy ones work best.
Welcome to the hydroooolic press channel. Today we press hard disk.
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In all seriousness, I’ve always thought the platters were extremely thin inside a HDD, but never actually had one open. That looks quite thick actually.
This is maybe 10 years old and a single platter drive. It’s possible multi-platter drives would have much thinner ones.
Too big, use this:
You have to sand it down to fit. Easy mistake to make
Have you tried pushing it really hard?
maybe op didn’t realize it’s a HD, thus it needs to be driven hard into position
They make excellent coasters and those magnets ensure things will NEVER fall down
Use a hammer.
Did you try microwaving the CD?
It’s a common misconception to try this in the cd drive. You actually have to insert it in floppy drive slot (nowadays only really old computers have them). You might have to push it in with a bit of force though, because they tend to lock up if you haven’t used them for a while…
Because they are prefab ninja stars.
You have to use toothpaste (if I remember correctly).
They make really good spin fidgets.
Yup. Really nice bearings. I also have a few HDD magnets that work well as hold-downs for laser cutting.
You goof, you need to put it into the floopy drive!
That’s a mirror sir
You have to lick it to get it to stick to the laser.
