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| Thread ID: 97636 | 2009-02-22 09:11:00 | Some cool tips here | prefect (6291) | PC World Chat |
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| 750289 | 2009-02-22 09:11:00 | www.nytimes.com | prefect (6291) | ||
| 750290 | 2009-02-22 19:56:00 | I wonder how many PF1ers have tried this tip: If — no, make that when — your PC’s hard drive crashes and can’t be read, don’t be too quick to throw it out. Stick it in the freezer overnight. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 750291 | 2009-02-22 20:03:00 | I wonder how many PF1ers have tried this tip: If — no, make that when — your PC’s hard drive crashes and can’t be read, don’t be too quick to throw it out. Stick it in the freezer overnight. It sounds like an urban legend to me (although I have nothing to back that up with). Surely putting a sensitive piece of electronic equipment into the freezer, where moisture condenses and freezes into ice *inside* the drive can't be a good thing. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 750292 | 2009-02-22 20:45:00 | I use drop hdd from 3 ft onto concrete technique. Next time I will try freezer technique. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 750293 | 2009-02-22 20:50:00 | Right: :rolleyes: Suppose your remote car door opener does not have the range to reach your car across the parking lot. Hold the metal key part of your key fob against your chin, then push the unlock button. The trick turns your head into an antenna, says Tim Pozar, a Silicon Valley radio engineer. As for the freezer: One of the more prevalent myths about data recovery is that there is a way to get a hard drive operational by putting the drive into a freezer or other extremely cold environment. The "freeze technique" has been around for years, and is commonly listed in Internet forums and data recovery websites as a miracle cure for physical hard drive problems. The idea is that freezing the drive shrinks the components enough so that when they expand again, they're in the proper orientation for the drive to operate normally, at least for long enough to make a copy of all of the data on the hard drive. As with most myths, there is a small amount of truth to this concept; in certain cases where the spindle of a hard drive has locked up and is unable to correctly spin the platters of the drive, very occasionally freezing the spindle will allow it to get back into place and operate normally. However, that doesn't necessarily lead to a data recovery, and the "freeze technique" can be a very unsafe procedure to attempt. The plausibility of the freeze technique is questionable; while some drives with locked up spindles may just need a slight readjustment that freezing can provide, the chances of this occurring are very low. It's more likely that attempting to freeze a hard drive will actually make the spindle lockup worse, and trying to boot the drive up after the freeze could cause rotational damage to the platters that contain the hard drive's data. What's more, freezing the drive may also cause damage to the platters; by shrinking and expanding the surface of the platters during the freeze, irreparable damage can occur, and usually does if extreme precaution isn't taken. Also, if a hard drive is frozen in a normal household freezer, condensation could build up on the drive, further damaging it. Unfortunately, there is no miracle cure for physical hard drive issues; the reality is that if a drive could be fixed by being frozen, it probably didn't have a very bad problem to begin with. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 750294 | 2009-02-22 20:55:00 | It sounds like an urban legend to me (although I have nothing to back that up with). Surely putting a sensitive piece of electronic equipment into the freezer, where moisture condenses and freezes into ice *inside* the drive can't be a good thing. From the Ripley believe it or not file :lol: That "trick sometimes does work to get a stuffed drive going again ( other times you end up with a cold slab of metal) Put it in a plastic / antistatic bag and seal - BUT only once , and on a drive that is going to be dumped anyway - to get the data off as quick as you can - once its defrozen it knacked as you mentioned due to moisture. Best one I've done - drive was stuffed, froze it -connected as a slave managed to copy off just under 10GB - then clunk clunk rraassssppppppp |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 750295 | 2009-02-22 21:00:00 | Yup, back in the days of the faulty Fujitsu drives, I managed to get data off quite a few of them by sticking them in the freezer overnight. I also have done this with scratched CDs, put it in the freezer for a few hours and then quickly made an ISO of it and this saved a few of my old games that would not work anymore because they were scratched. This won't work if the reflective coating has been scratched off though. |
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