HD failure

[Jo Dillon]

On Thursday 18 October 2001 11:30 pm, you wrote:
> 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. :)

  Hmm, at my previous job we always tried warming the drive ;)
Worked at least once...

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	Jo