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twisterX
01-22-2006, 08:41 PM
Freezing you dead HDD in a ziplock bag can make it work for a few minutes or longer if you are lucky.

Put it in a ziplock bag for about an hour in the freezer and then plug it in the PC.

I saw people have good results with this.

Seedler
01-22-2006, 08:48 PM
thx for the tip, might need it one day

Virtualbody1234
01-22-2006, 09:01 PM
Yup! And sometimes knocking the drive on its edge gets it working again too.

SingaBoiy
01-24-2006, 07:29 AM
Yup! And sometimes knocking the drive on its edge gets it working again too.
WTF? Surely you mean shaking it real hard? :01:

suprafreak6
01-25-2006, 12:09 AM
i actually use ice cooling... i put a couple of bags around some ice
then a towel around that... then i put that on the harddrive...works decently, because then the heat transfers to the water...

twisterX
01-26-2006, 08:06 PM
thats not very smart. Too much water involved. It would be better to use dry ice.

zapjb
01-26-2006, 08:28 PM
The freezing method either by regular or dry ice. Is only meant as a last ditch solution. It is meant for disaster recovery only. I have researched this, not tried it. Hope not to. Best way is as mentioned, 1hr in ziplock in freezer. That alone will (when it works) give ~20mins of regular functioning. To continue up to 2hrs set the drive on a ice source. Recommended are ice packs. The reuseable ones. Also for less strain it's best to use the f'd up drive as slave & copy files over to another drive. After this the drive will supposedly not function at all. These are generalities of course, there will be exceptions.

twisterX
01-27-2006, 04:11 AM
Well a dead HDD is only for disaster recovery.There is nothing else useful for it.