Rick Collins wrote in a message to Charlie Decker:
 RC> I have one word for you:  horseshit.
 RC> Here's why.  The heads on a hard drive "fly" over the surface of
 RC> the disk, because they are aerodynamically designed that way.  They
 RC> "fly" in the airflow created by the spinning disk.  Cut the power,
 RC> and the disk slows down - it doesn't stop abruptly.  And guess
 RC> what?  the heads will be retracted before they can "crash" into the
 RC> disk surface.
Funny. I had a drive here where the heads came off. Made a nice little mess 
:-) 
I have another one which failed to retract, maybe the lubrication on the arm 
failed or something, but it didn't retract when it was supposed to.
Naturally, neither drive are usefull now. 
Of course, none of this can be attributed to virii activity.
Dave
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