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Freeze a dead hard drive to copy its data
I can vouch for heat sometimes being the fix--I use a toaster oven set to a low temperature (it doesn't have to get too hot to help, and you don't want it to get too hot anyway, which might melt some plastic inside the drive). I've been recovering data from bad drives since hard drives first became available for the Mac, and depending on the way the drive is behaving, I'll either first freeze it or heat it. I haven't tried running a drive while it's still in the freezer, but maybe I'll try it the next time I have a drive that might qualify. What I've been doing to keep a drive cool, has been to put a couple wet sponges into the freezer too, and place the drive on top of one of them (metal topside down) while it's on the workbench, and when the sponge starts to warm up, I replace it with the other sponge that's still in the freezer, and keep doing this until the data is recovered. To keep a hard drive warm, sometimes I run a hair dryer over it while the recovery is proceeding.
Freeze a dead hard drive to copy its data
I should add: don't get the hair dryer too close to the drive, since the EMF from the hair dryer might interfere with the drive's electronics. |
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