Just lost a drive

[gigapet]

i like you juice box you seem like a swell guy. If your even in CT i'll buy you a :beer: or 23

 

[Vegitto]

Aww..
Here's the world's smallest violin, playing a sad, sad, song, just for you.

 

[MisterJackson]

Why did you freeze it? You now have rendered it useless to any further attempts at data recovery. I'm not a believer in the "freeze it" trick, but if I was I'd exhaust all other avenues first. Now there's likely condensation inside the drive, what a waste.

I'd bang it, or drop it a few times before I froze it.....

Does the bios even detect it?

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
Why did you freeze it? You now have rendered it useless to any further attempts at data recovery. I'm not a believer in the "freeze it" trick, but if I was I'd exhaust all other avenues first. Now there's likely condensation inside the drive, what a waste.

I'd bang it, or drop it a few times before I froze it.....

Does the bios even detect it?

If you do it properly, condensation isn't that large of a problem... I froze one drive, and after doing so, it lived for a couple of years (albeit with noncritical data).

I know of a *lot* of computer shops that try freezing fairly quickly. I'd never heard anyone else make a big deal out of the freezing trick.

 

[MisterJackson]

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
Why did you freeze it? You now have rendered it useless to any further attempts at data recovery. I'm not a believer in the "freeze it" trick, but if I was I'd exhaust all other avenues first. Now there's likely condensation inside the drive, what a waste.

I'd bang it, or drop it a few times before I froze it.....

Does the bios even detect it?

If you do it properly, condensation isn't that large of a problem... I froze one drive, and after doing so, it lived for a couple of years (albeit with noncritical data).

I know of a *lot* of computer shops that try freezing fairly quickly. I'd never heard anyone else make a big deal out of the freezing trick.

Well, I'm not trying to make a big deal out of the fact that he did it, just that it should be a last resort. I work at a computer shop that's been in business for 13 years locally.

I personally have recoverd data from about 25 "Dead drives" with about a 70% to 80% recovery ratio (assuming the drive spins up at all).

The inside of a hdd, as I'm sure you know, has zero tolerance for moisture. That's why they put little silicia packs inside next to the platters. I'm sure you froze one and it "worked forever" afterwards, but I imagine that's the exception to the rule, not the norm.

Again, my point it this, freezing should be a last resort if your data is important to you. Secondly, I personally have never seen the "freeze trick" work in all of the drives I've seen it happen to (which is quite a few, plus one more according to the OP).

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: MisterJackson

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
Why did you freeze it? You now have rendered it useless to any further attempts at data recovery. I'm not a believer in the "freeze it" trick, but if I was I'd exhaust all other avenues first. Now there's likely condensation inside the drive, what a waste.

I'd bang it, or drop it a few times before I froze it.....

Does the bios even detect it?

If you do it properly, condensation isn't that large of a problem... I froze one drive, and after doing so, it lived for a couple of years (albeit with noncritical data).

I know of a *lot* of computer shops that try freezing fairly quickly. I'd never heard anyone else make a big deal out of the freezing trick.

Well, I'm not trying to make a big deal out of the fact that he did it, just that it should be a last resort. I work at a computer shop that's been in business for 13 years locally.

I personally have recoverd data from about 25 "Dead drives" with about a 70% to 80% recovery ratio (assuming the drive spins up at all).

The inside of a hdd, as I'm sure you know, has zero tolerance for moisture. That's why they put little silicia packs inside next to the platters. I'm sure you froze one and it "worked forever" afterwards, but I imagine that's the exception to the rule, not the norm.

Again, my point it this, freezing should be a last resort if your data is important to you. Secondly, I personally have never seen the "freeze trick" work in all of the drives I've seen it happen to (which is quite a few, plus one more according to the OP).

Yeah... I think that if the data is absolutely critical, then send it to a data recovery service, or something like that... I don't want to touch it, just in case I would harm it more.

That said, I've managed to recover a few drives using the freezer trick (I keep them as cold as possible while recovering data, and as soon as I get the data, I ditch it). I've seen an outrageously large number of dead drives in the timespan I've been working in IT.

 

[cerebusPu]

IVe been checking up on my drives weekly with the SMART monitor. I have 1.5 TB file server and Im worried that Id lose an entire drive of movies/music.