5 May
2010
5 May
'10
1:45 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
With a modicum of care, it shouldn't be a problem, especially
considering that once you've recovered any data you'll be able to
recover, the drive itself is going to go for scrap anyway. You're not
actually repairing it for further use.
Peace... Sridhar
If I was
running a drive recovery business=2C every drive that came in
would be opened first in a clean room before powering on. If there
was a failure of one of the disk=2C shipping could have distributed bits
to unaffected surfaces.
I can see your point, but I am not sure I would open every drive. After
all, could you seal it up again well enough (you are not going to get
replacement gaskets...). And there is a risk of doing more damage to the
platters/heads.