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

[Peter Childs]

On 20/12/06, Dan Attwood <danattwood at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Packet of frozen peas or mice would probably work just as well and you
could at least do somthing other than bin them afterwards, Sounds to
me like a wast of good sausages.

Peter.


> 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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