Old laptop hard drive "goo"

30 Nov 2007

...
  I didn't think a hard drive contained anything
that could ooze out.
 Any idea what it could be and does that mean the drive is pretty much
 toast?  Let the magic goo out? 
If you compress a drive, does the magic smoke turn into magic goo?

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Old laptop hard drive "goo"