Recover data from a crashed hard drive by freezing it
I hadn't heard this before, but apparently you can eek a little more life out of a crashed drive by freezing it. I would have never thought to try this, but all the anecdotal evidence suggests it really works.
According to one of the comments:
The reason that this works, is that when a head crashes it gets off center and will hit the pin the harddrive. Freezing it compresses it, allowing it to gain a little room to move where it wouldn't before.
I usually just vibrate (shake) the drive/laptop when the machine is starting up to jar the head. it work some of the time and saves me the time of waiting for the freezer.
i'd be a little leary of trying this on a non broken drive. a quick random datasheet from maxtor shows min operating temp to be 5degC
i've read this too. but i've yet to try it.
ReplyDeleteI usually just vibrate (shake) the drive/laptop when the machine is starting up to jar the head. it work some of the time and saves me the time of waiting for the freezer.
ReplyDeletei'd be a little leary of trying this on a non broken drive. a quick random datasheet from maxtor shows min operating temp to be 5degC
If the drive wasn't broken, why would getting data off be an issue?
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