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.
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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.
thx for the tip, might need it one day
Yup! And sometimes knocking the drive on its edge gets it working again too.
WTF? Surely you mean shaking it real hard? :01:Quote:
Originally Posted by Virtualbody1234
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...
thats not very smart. Too much water involved. It would be better to use dry ice.
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.
Well a dead HDD is only for disaster recovery.There is nothing else useful for it.