Yep Neil one that works as designed to
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Pity that the nameless one fails to work as well isn't it? 
Col
A picture of the drive in question as it was delivered for recovery
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No worries!
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Hmmm....I have some old Connor 40Mb drives that look like that...and they're still running!!
I just dug out a pile of old stuff that has been sat in a cardboard carton under a pile of old wood behind my garden shed - exposed to a British winter for six months and completely waterlogged. It's amazing what still works, although I was reluctant to power up the ATX power supplies until I left it to dry out for a couple of days! 
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Well as I've seen a few people asking about disposing of HDD's recently
Apparently On Track was given a Drive from Colombia and they managed to recover 99% of the Data on the drive. No mean feat when you consider just what that drive was exposed to and it had gone through more than what most companies do to protect themselves from Data Theft.
Full Article is listed here
http://tinyurl.com/4xy5vv
and in a supporting link is the write up of the Experiment that the recovered Data Pertained to.
What made the job easier was the fact that this drive was running DOS so the data wasn't scattered all over the drive so it was possible to recover from the undamaged part of the platters. Kind of makes one think when we see stories like this doesn't it?
Col
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