When operating, was the HDD too hot?

This reminds me of some hard drive failures. I found that those who don't
have a room for air flow fail or develop bad sectors early on(mostly bad
sectors and total system freeze, including the mouse pointer). These drives
where installed in the bottommost slot, with very little gap between the
electronics and the bottom surface.

P.S.: I did replace the electronics in 10 GB WDC hard drives without
problems and recovered the data. I know that they could have calibration
parameters in them, but I was able to recover the data nevertheless.

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Any info on what happened or suggestions of recovery?


When operating, was the HDD too hot? Do you have a good clean/cool air
flow across the drive?

Even though this wouldn't have helped, if a partition has oggles of
unused space, I'll take Partition Magic 8.01 and make a backup
partition on the same drive. Yes - it might not have helped here!
However, here's my next suggestion... Install/reuse an old/nasty/slow
secondary drive and zip/compress your data frequently to it. Let's let
Gareth's experience push us closer into regular backups for
ourselves...

My heart goes out to you Gareth. Best wishes and good luck to you.