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Freezing dead hard drives?
Jan. 19th, 2010 07:26 am(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.
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.
