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:
"HOWTO proceed with reviving an Old Disk Drive".
That way, the result can be posted, forwarded, archived in the KB,
so when people DO bump into this task, they WONT fuck up the disk
by just powering it up, but, instead, follow that procedure.
--f