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Ouch! Stupidly had my new laptop hard drive replacement out of the box. It is in the dark translucent packaging. It was in direct sunlight from a window for maybe 4 hot days, maybe an hour or two per day.
Hard drives do have a higher tolerance for heat while stored. I'd say put it in and see what happens. It will probably either work perfectly, or fail fast.
ps - maintain a backup. But you do this anyway, so no sweat.
Hard drives in a computer experience some decent heat so I'd be surprised if you damaged your drive. Like reader50 suggested, plug it in and see if it works...
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