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Freezer Trick for borked HDDs...

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Well it worked! I was able to recover all 60gb of data from the drive. I put it in the freezer for an hour, slaved in my 160gb drive, I didnt' have any ice packs so I put a half pound of frozen ground meat wrapped in aluminum foil on top of the drive to keep it cool. I had to unistall and re-install the controller to get the drive out of PIO mode, then copied all the data over successfuly.
 
This trick worked for me and the drive sounded awful. It was making nasty noises. I put in the freezer over night took it out let warm up for about 5 mins whipped the moister off it and plug it into by back up machine
 
The strange thing for me is that the drive has been working normaly since then, no more clicking, no more long pauses, I ran HDtach on it and it's right where it should be. Seems like it's gonna last long enough for it's replacement to arrive.
 
No worky for me.. I have a Maxtor 80GB hdd sitting right here outside my computer with so much stuff on it.. if nothing else, every single school project from last four years are on there that I wish I could recover.. oh well.. $1500 is insane amount of money to send any disk drive for recovery.. imagine how many new hdd i could buy for that much!
 
Originally posted by: wolfpack15
No worky for me.. I have a Maxtor 80GB hdd sitting right here outside my computer with so much stuff on it.. if nothing else, every single school project from last four years are on there that I wish I could recover.. oh well.. $1500 is insane amount of money to send any disk drive for recovery.. imagine how many new hdd i could buy for that much!
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Whenever my Maxtors died they died without warning, and I could never recover any of the data from them. Every maxtor I had in the past died like this, so I don't buy them anymore.
 
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