hard drive in freezer trick

[PremiumG]

im leaving my hard drive saran wrapped in the freezer before i head out to work today. Its been making clicking noises and it doesn't even register in BIOS. Does putting it in the freezer work to revive the HDD?

 

[domsq]

How is that meant to do anything to a buggered HDD?

 

[Frew]

Yes, I've heard numerous stories of it working.


Never tried it myself though.

 

[MobiusPizza]

it will prolong your HDD life little while for you to backup stuff in it

 

[alius]

http://www.meetmyattorney.com/slink/mt-archives/000275.html

Seems to work for a number of people.

Some repairs guys say its a last ditch effort with a 50/60% success rate.

 

[daniel49]

testimonials

http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-1035_11-5029761-2.html

 

[Thorny]

It's worked every time for me. I've only tried twice though

 

[prochobo]

I've heard that it works too. It freezes the read/write heads in place and does something.

 

[John]

In my experience, the freezer trick has worked maybe 2 out of 20 times.

 

[stevty2889]

I had to try it once, and it worked for me, I was able to recover all 60gb of data from my drive. It was giving the clicks of death, and not being recognized by BIOS. Strange thing is that the dry has been working normaly since then.

 

[AmberClad]

I always wondered about this. How exactly does it help to get data off a dying drive? And aren't the frozen ice crystals that start forming over it kind of bad for the drive???

 

[Toro 45]

Curious to see if it works for you, let us know how it goes.

 

[duckdown]

i always thought it was just a urban legend for us computer geekz

 

[chrisrod01]

Weird I never heard of this.Weird thing about the post is that all the girls have heard of this trick and none of the guys except one knew about it lol ololololol
Im not being sexist so dont think about that way I just thought it was funny