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Authored by: mikerose on Nov 29, '04 10:45:13PM

While not applicable in every case, we've had a lot of good luck over the past six months with a simple data recovery technique: put the hard drive, or the entire laptop if needed, in the freezer for 20 minutes. Bring it out and use a DriveDock or target disk mode to back up the user folder to another machine. We've 'saved' drives this way that were unmountable and unrecoverable with DiskWarrior, DataRescueX and other tools of last resort.

It may sound silly, but in my experience it works pretty well.



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