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Freeze a dead hard drive to copy its data
Authored by: BMarsh on Nov 06, '06 06:58:07AM

yeah, I've heard of someone else doing this... again it was a Server, drives running constantly for years, they had to shut it down and start it up again at one point eventually, and one of the hard drives would not spin back up.

(this was long enough ago it was still physical bearings, with some kind of lubricant that had solidified when it cooled down)

a bit of heat, recovered the data before replacing the drive (they did have backups as well, but was much faster to recover from the HD, instead of the copy speeds from tape.



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