In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Erica Eshoo wrote:
On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:20:28 +1100, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:
Did you not read the second to last sentence of the original post?
No - evidently not, I must have missed it.

How does that work anyway?
What does a "cold hard disk" do differently than a warm one?

Very simple: It skews a lot of operating parameters. If the
drive just barely not manages to work, this can make it work
temporarily. It is a long shot though.

Arno