[TriLUG] Hard drive recovery

ALFRED JOHNSON alfjon at mindspring.com
Tue Sep 6 02:43:41 EDT 2005


Fixing hard drives by freezing them in your freezer dates back at  
least several decades that I'm aware of.  It is temporary of course  
and meant to help you recover the data on your hard disk. --- Al Johnson
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On Aug 27, 2005, at 7:04 AM, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Owen Berry wrote:a
>
>
>> 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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