Hi, it's strange you should mention tapping the hard drive. I once had one
which was completely bad, making all the loud noises and everything, so I
decided to change it. I removed it, and as I did, I knocked it pretty hard.
(In fact, I dropped it!)
I installed what I thought was the newer drive, and it turned out that I
couldn't have been thinking straight, as I just reinstalled the one I had
just taken out and dropped.
Before I realised this, however, I had already installed  and powered the
system up.
It worked fine, although I'm not sure how long for, or if it's still in
working order, I no longer have the system.
I kept it in the system as it was, and it seemed fine, no problems at all.
Now that has happened to me, I definately wouldn't be worried about
'tapping' a 'broken' hard drive. If it still didn't work afterwards, then
you won't have lost anything will you?
.....and there was me trying to be ever so delicate with it..........
Michele Sayer

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