(Yet another reason) Why I Hate Windows

[James McDonald]

Tony Alfrey wrote:
> 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!
>
>
This thread gets my vote for "Most Informative Thread of the Month" 2 
fantastic methods of getting data off mechanically defective drives...