"Folkert Rienstra" wrote in message
...

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.

That's misleading. The mean time to TOTAL failure once the lid has been
lifted is down in the hours range and can be MUCH less.

Clueless. Can't even setup his newsreader properly either.

Go ahead wacko...pull the cover from a =60GB HD mfg in the last 2 years and
let it sit there and run with the lid off in the average home
environment...tell us all how long it lives. While it's goin watch it
carefully...you might learn something..wear glasses.