Well I couldn't believe it but one of my portables had a hard drive with an intact rubber gasket!!!! It wasn't gooey at all!!! First time I have ever seen this!! I removed it anyway.. no reason to take a chance!!! I am using clear silicone liquid and along with a syringe am squirting it in where the gasket used to be and then re-attaching the cover nice and tight!!!
On a side note I have seen all over the place to not use the newer Apple hard disk drivers to format the drive.. And it is true.. The drive has difficulty waking up when it re-spins back up after falling asleep. You receive error messages.. It just doesn't remount from a sleep state. So it is said that this will ruin the hard drive... well that's not true.. I've used a 3rd party APS Powertools software and re-initialized along with the APS Powertools driver... Working like a charm... So those rumors that it ruins the drive is just not true.. You just can't use the new Apple drivers... there is a bug when it comes to the portable and the Connor drives..
On a side note I have seen all over the place to not use the newer Apple hard disk drivers to format the drive.. And it is true.. The drive has difficulty waking up when it re-spins back up after falling asleep. You receive error messages.. It just doesn't remount from a sleep state. So it is said that this will ruin the hard drive... well that's not true.. I've used a 3rd party APS Powertools software and re-initialized along with the APS Powertools driver... Working like a charm... So those rumors that it ruins the drive is just not true.. You just can't use the new Apple drivers... there is a bug when it comes to the portable and the Connor drives..