Toshiba T3100/20 with a dead drive?

[3lectr1c]

Only really doable if you can manage to get the platters out and in without breaking anything. That’s a lot harder than just opening one up and fixing a melted bumper in the voice coil. Certainly beyond what I’ve ever done, but maybe possible.

 

[xjr358]

This JVC drive has additional leaky caps on the back of the PCB unfortunately. The drive is constructed as such that the entire drive mechanism comes out with the PCB, and you cannot separate the PCB from the mech without taking the drive mech apart. Because of this, these drives are basically toast once the caps on the back do their damage.
See this video at 46:30 in:

This may just be the 20MB ones, I don’t know if the 10MB drives have the same caps on the back.

Thanks for the video - that's exactly the my case. Now I'm almost sure that problem is in the hdd itself.