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Default Can cold weather damage electronics components and circuit boards?

On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:14:11 -0500 default wrote
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The hard drive
lubrication is thick and the speed of rotation can be low enough to
let the heads contact the disk.


Doubtful. A hard drive does not load the heads until the platters are up
to speed.