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Freeze a dead hard drive to copy its data
Authored by: bongo_x on Nov 06, '06 10:34:07AM

I've done this several times to save data but I didn't freeze overnight. I just put the drive in the freezer for an hour or so until it got cold then plugged it right in. it usually works until it heats up again. I've had to put a drive in the freezer several times to get all the data off.

I guess different methods work for different problems. it usually stops working for me as soon as it heats up which is quite different from others reports here.

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