Freezer Trick for borked HDDs...

[w00t]

Originally posted by: keeleysam

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Testify!

- M4H

LOL

see how he keeps it the anti static bag or w/e its called

 

[stevty2889]

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.

 

[RaiderJ]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Testify!

- M4H

Nice!

 

[formulav8]

The freezer trick worked MANY times for me. So, its not just hype anymore. At least to me



Jason

 

[bashman]

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

 

[stevty2889]

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.

 

[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!

 

[stevty2889]

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!

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.

 

[watek]

i tried this hoping to revive one of my maxtors but