Re: Hard Drive in Freezer

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From: Bob I (birelan_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:30:09 -0500

Actually you laid them out on a flat surface, "whacked" them on the
corner so they would rotate the platter as you applied power, then as
soon as they got up to speed start copying off the data, cause it might
not work one more time.

Haggis wrote:

> "Tim Slattery" <Slattery_T@bls.gov> wrote in message
> news:28b3l0hput0hsa10qjp6265r14p8nq7568@4ax.com...
>
>>"D-Dawg" <d-dawg@dawgs.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I've heard from someone that, putting dead hard drives in freezer might
>>>ressurect it. Is this true? or am I gulible?
>>>
>>I've heard it too. I'd guess it works in some percentage of cases.
>>
>>--
>>Tim Slattery
>>MS MVP(DTS)
>>Slattery_T@bls.gov
>>
>
>
> geared towards older drives that tended to "sieze" ....the trip to the
> freezer would sometime cause the disc to shrink and free it to spin again...
>
> also there were a certain number of people back in they day that recommended
> "whacking" the HD on a hard surface to free the platters...
>
>
> not that i would suggest anyone do it :>
>
>
>

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