[TriLUG] Hard drive recovery

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Owen Berry wrote:

> In the mean time, anybody know of good/reasonably affordable data
> recovery services in the area,

when I last looked, data recovery was in the $1000's range.

Last disk that died on me with clicking, I put in the 
freezer, and on removal wrapped in a plastic bag (so the 
condensation didn't short out any of the electronics) and 
booting from another disk, copied everything off as quick as 
possible. I think I had to do several interations of 
freezing it. I don't know if this is a general solution or I 
was lucky. I wouldn't run the disk anymore than you need in 
the meantime.

Joe

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