HD failure

[Paul_Melson@keykertusa.com]

>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. :)

I've had success with this method at least a half dozen times with older
Mac SCSI drives.  You don't even need to leave them over night.  30-90
minutes seems to be enough time in the freezer.  I always worried about
condensation, but it's never been a problem, so...

PaulM