(Yet another reason) Why I Hate Windows

[Tony Alfrey]

Jay Nugent wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, vu pham wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 15:53 -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>>> Rick Bowers wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>> I left that company (not by choice) and stored the drive. Two years 
>>>> later, the assets of that company were acquired and I went to work for 
>>>> the new company.  None of the old stuff had been transferred over (or, 
>>>> apparently, preserved) so I took out my backup. It won't spin up. 
>>>> Period.
> 
<snip>
> 
>    An old trick was to place the drive in the freezer for several hours
> until it is thoroughly frozen.  

<snip>
There are a remarkable number of references on Google about this 
technique, some which say power up when frozen and some which say thaw 
it out.  Who would have thought!


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Tony Alfrey
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"I'd Rather Be Sailing"