opening a modern hard drive will cause it to fail almost immediately.

Not true but it increases the risk of that. Running it after opening
outside of a clean room is very risky.


Yeah but if the data isn't very valuable its worth the fun of trying if I
can get a spare hdd for cheap or free. The hardest part is getting the un
crashed heads off the other hdd without destroying them. I'm not too worried
about losing a few dozen megs of data due to random dust particles.

- Mike