On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 18:42:05 GMT, Grinder wrote:

andy wrote:
On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 02:51:07 GMT, "Ron Reaugh" wrote:



WRONG, they're covered with soot and unusable.


How can you be sure?

The platters are moving quite fast -- thousands of RPMs. When the heads
crash they will generate generate debris above those rapidly moving
platters. Where else would those particles come to rest?

But that still may not disable access to most of the data in a short period of
time. According to Ontrack opening a disk in ordinary conditions (which I
assume is even worse than those particles from head crash) usually shortens
life of a disk from 100 to 1000 times - it doesn't kill all data on disk
instantly.

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