It is not good to assume... I assumed the hard drive was not opened
when giving my answer. (Thanks Peter for your answer about that...)
It takes special tools to open mine and I had to buy them "special" just
to look at an HD that I knew was never going to work again...
When you open a hard drive case, you can expect to get a couple minutes
out of it (if any) since ANY amount of the smallest dust will destroy the heads
almost right away...
Rick Glazier
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From: "Richard Glazier"
> The HD should still be fine after a format in either case...
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