[Klug-general] You know its a bad day when...

[Dan Attwood]

To elaborate of this tip I foound the best way to do it was the following

- wrap the disk in an antistatic bag
-leave it for an hour
- remove it carfully form the bag (beware of condensation)
-Get a second clean anti staic bag and a pack of froozen sausages
- wrap the sauages in the new bag
- balance the drive on the pack of sausages
The sausages will keep the drive colder for longer and let you get
more data of at a time.
Last time I did this though I found that I could only get about 20
mins of life out of the drive before it died and I had to refreeze it.

dan


On 20/12/06, Karl Lattimer <karl at qdh.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 18:53 +0000, Dan Attwood wrote:
> > ekkk sounds bad,
> > freeze it
> >
>
> After freezing, it POSTed. Which means I can boot a kernel and the
> device will be available to the OS.
>
> I knew about that trick, I really did. However didn't think of it. Maybe
> I couldn't see the MDF for the forest or something. Thanks for the tip
> Dan. Now all I have to do is find a live CD which will carefully copy
> the important data from the drive.
>
> Oh joy, this one can wait until the new year.
>
>
> K,
>
>
>
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