[Gllug] OT: Hard drive failure

[Simon Bunker]

Yes I have heard tihs one - didn't work fore me, but we only had a cold
fridge at the time - not a freezer, and didn't leave it long enough. Plus
the drive wasn't making any noises at all. It's worth trying at least. I
heard it from a guy who works in telcoms down in Oz. As they say YMMV.

Simon
http://www.rendermania.com/
UIN 11123737

> Hi,
>  If you are serious about your hard disk take it out of the machine:-
> a} put it in another machine (a slight voltage difference does work
>
> 2} wrap it in a antistat bag then in a freezer bag put it in the freezer
for
> 24 HOur.
>
> Put it ice cold into your original box USE Gloves if its cold enough you
can
> lose skin !! guess how I know.
>  Once in the machine & she fires get yer data off NOW
>
> Any one who thinks I'm crazy (apart from my Wife take a number get in
line )
> BUT it does work used it 5-6 times in the last 9 years and save my A$$
>
>
> On Tuesday 31 July 2001 23:59, your missive said : -
>  > Depending on solar alignment this may or may not work, but you may wish
to
>  > tell the bios that it is there, by manually setting the cylinders/heads
>  > etc. then booting up using a bbc or bootdisk or what have you, and see
how
>  > you get on, it sounds like its a mechanical failure and it is unlikely
>  > this will work, but just in case, i've had hard disks which have
crashed
>  > on me and not been bios detected and with some perseverance you can
>  > extract at least some of the data. Not that you will need to since the
>  > world is about to end this evening when all of the underworld break out
>  > from cisco routers and little crud puppies crawl out of everynt server
in
>  > the land destined like lemmings to flood whitehouse.gov with all sorts
of
>  > wierd stuff.
>  >
>  > Ahh nothing like a bit of chaos.
>  >
>  >
>  > David
>  >
>  > "Putting the foo back into foobar."
>  >


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