Hi Jasen! :-)

 JB> strange. Most drives will work fine on their sides. maybe there was 
 JB> already something about to fail or maybe 90 degrees is fine but 45 
 JB> deadly.
Correct, 90 degrees should be fine - at least the label on my current hard
disk, a Samsung, says so.

Ciao
Pascal

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