HD failure

[Jason Watson]

I know this sounds goofy and I'm not entirely sure why it works but if it's 
a hardware failure I've read lots of articles that say to seal the drive in 
a zip lock bag and put it in the freezer overnight.  When the drive is real 
good and cold hook it back up and do what you can to backup/copy the data on 
the drive.  I had to do this once a while back on an old 250 Mb IDE drive 
that was making ticking noises and not spinning up.  After freezing the 
drive it spun up and worked long enough for me to recover the data.  Hope 
this helps or at least gets a dumbfounded look or chuckle. :)

Jason Watson
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I have a person with a failed HD that needs some data recovered
from it.  There is a guy named Skip in the OS/2 users group who
does this.  Anybody know how I can reach him?

Thanks,
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Mark Szidik
System Administrator           Ph: 517.694.4242 x17  Fax: 517.694.9303
Michigan Library Consortium    http://www.mlc.lib.mi.us

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