"Viktor Pilpenok"  wrote in message
news:407F1EA1.195.fidotech{at}artikbre.synchro.net...
> Hello Pascal!
>
> 15 Apr 04 23:15, you wrote to Jasen Betts:
> AFAIK, it can be at any angle, the point is this angle shouldn't change
while
> the drive is spinned on.

From my experience and all of the books I have read the only angle that your
never supposed to run a Hard Drive is upside down. It sounds like his was
already mounted on it's side and when he tilted it an aditional 45 degrees
that put his drive upside down.
You are almost guarenteed to kill a drive this way.

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