Freezing dead hard drives?

[poltr1]

(I need a better computer icon. This one is supposed to denote complexity.)

Some time ago, a few of you were discussing the technique of putting a dead hard drive in the freezer in order to revive it temporarily -- long enough to get all the data off it. How's it done? I remember double-bagging the drive so that it doesn't get any water inside it.

A few months ago, a good friend gave me an external Iomega hard drive unit that failed. Inside was a Seagate 1.5 Tb disk. I plugged it in and I couldn't read anything from the drive. Not even my GetDataBack program could do anything with it. So now I'm considering the freezer trick.

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freezing a drive

[happyfunpaul.livejournal.com]

Specifically, the freeze trick is for drives that fail from heat expansion Here are my four posts from almost exactly a year ago. The technique didn't work for me, but here's all I know on the topic:

laptop hard drive kaput
One final bit on the kaput laptop hard drive...
update on "freezing the hard drive"
Operation "Freeze Drive" fails

Good luck!