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Freeze a dead hard drive to copy its data
Authored by: gref on Nov 05, '06 01:41:47PM

There was a problem with avid harddrives some years ago called sticktion (from friction and getting stuck). the read/write arms got stuck due to problems with the lubricant or something. to get the drives spinning up again you had to give them a firm whack. i tried it a several times and it worked most of the times. if you don't want to wait for your drive to freeze and warm up again and as it might die anyway this might as well be an option.



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Freeze a dead hard drive to copy its data
Authored by: BMarsh on Nov 06, '06 07:00:06AM

a firm "whack" to the side of the drive if I'm not mistaken, and not to the top or bottom

especially if the drive is spinning, impacting the top or bottom of the drive could put the read head into the platter, which you really want to avoid.



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