And sometimes it appears that signal noise created by the power aberrations
activates the write sequence in the controller just long enough to
overwrite critical data.   See this a lot on platters we have analyzed for
recovery.   Especially where there are multiple on off cycles.

Otis

Feroze Kistan wrote:

> They can when the head unit bounces and hits the platter when the surge
> cause the tip to jump higher than normal
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>   The disc platters themselves are magnetic metal and probably
>  not capable of being damaged by a power surge.

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