- Jan 23, 2001
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So we had a hard drive crash at work today. Bios wouldn't detect it, of course it wouldn't boot, wouldn't show up on the secondary channel. They were out of ideas when I remembered reading somewhere about sticking the drive in the freezer for a while and then trying it again. Mike the guy working on it had nothing else to lose so he gave it a shot. Dropped it in a zip loc bag, stuck it in there for about a half hour, and then popped it back in the machine. I'll be damned if the dumb thing didn't boot right into Windows. I had heard of the trick but never actually tried it before, but for you non-believers like myself, it looks like it actually can work. It only lasted for about 10 minutes or so, but that was long enough for us to copy the data up to the network that we needed off it. Very cool !