People,
Rather than (a) yelling at someone new for doing something WE know
should not be done, and then (b) go on (at length) at WHAT SHOULD
have been done, why dont all the experienced head-cleaners on here
work together (OFF_LIST !) on producing a HOWTO on this subject:
Why should it be off-list? Surely repairing/presrving a demountable hard
disk is very much on-topic here.
"HOWTO proceed with reviving an Old Disk
Drive".
I am not sure what good that will do. The sort of person who knows he has
to take care and therefore will look for the HOWTO is the sort of person
who, if he can't find that HOWTO will ask here anyway. And presumably
list members would then give helpful information.
-tony