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Freeze a dead hard drive to copy its data
Authored by: rlandsiedel on Nov 06, '06 12:53:39PM

I find this kind of funny. About 12 years ago one of our techs left a dead hard drive in his car overnight. That night it got to -40F. The tech took the drive into the shop and it spun up. Saved all the data. Freezing works often enough to be tried. Some freezers are not cold enough to cause enough thermal contractions to "fix" the drive.

An old trick is now out in the open.



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