My hard drive failed - came back in the freezer! 16 June 2006, 11:24
Posted by Orhan in : Geeky Techy Stuff , trackbackI use an old notebook hard drive in an external 2.5″ enclosure to carry my data everywhere. It failed last week, I didn’t mind because I keep regular backups (using xcopy with some parameters.) It turned out that my back up script was not perfect. I thought it was backing up fine but I found out the hard way that it was encountering an error and stopping to copy the files and the error message dissapears so quickly that I did not realize the problem.
Anyway, I had to retrieve the data from my failed hard disk and I do not have $1000 to give to the professionals. I was searching the web for an appropriate software and I came accross this discussion: “Freeze your hard drive to recover data: Myth or Reality?“
I tried the trick, and it worked! I put the hard disk along with the enclosure to the freezer and waited for 10 minutes. I then connected my laptop and downloaded everything off of it. It needed a few unplug-plug cycles but I was able to recover all the data..
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