re lciii problems sideways hd s in article qmir l usenet ins cwru edu kephart snowhite eeap cwru edu t kephart writes in article qmgjk ao menudo uh edu sunnyt coding bchs uh edu writes its not a good idea to have a horizontally formatted hard disk in a vertical position if the drive is formatted in a horizontal position it can not completely compensate for the gravitational pull in a vertical position i asked this question a while ago while contemplating placing my on it s side i received a response from someone at seagate sorry i trashed the message stating that most newer drives seagates at the least can very well compensate for gravity this means that a horizontally formatted drive can be later placed vertically with no data integrity problems so is there any problems putting a drive formatted vertically on its side horizontally i got a drive a few years ago with the rubber feet on the side etc and have used it like that since obviously designed for that orientation however it doesn t fit under any of the clever places i can think of to place it so i would really like to lay it flat and put it under a low shelf this is probably not a newer drive and it is only meg but when i bought it it was a large drive for an average user comparable to buying a meg drive today so is my old meg drive as fragile or not as a new meg drive just curious jim melton novice guru email flash austin lockheed com so far as we know our voice mail computer has never had fax an undetected error
