They've been using those eco disks for a while and I like the idea..Good to know that the freezer treatment isnt good only to recover stuck and crashed HDDs.
And yes, it does work on HDDs, saved a great number of hard disks. Put it in a bag, freeze for a couple of hours, get it out connect it, take data and wait for it to crash again ! On 14 June 2010 15:50, Paul Morley <[email protected]> wrote: > I bought this months Linux Format magazine (LXF133) which now has a thin > Eco-disc DVD attached. This is pretty flexible item and it did look a > bit distorted. Well when I tried it out it would not work in my drive. > > I had read on a blog some time ago, that people had been able to recover > date from failed HD's by putting them into a plastic freezer bag and > leaving in the freezer over night. All sounded a bit far fetched to me. > > But I thought I would put the failed DVD in my freezer for a couple of > hours and see what happens, there being nothing to loose as it didn't > work anyway. > Guess what after this 'treatment' it works as normal!! May be the low > temperature took out the distortion allowing the disk to spin properly > in my drive? > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > -- Sent from my Thunderbird® email client from my Personal Computer - No I don't have a Blackberry®, I'm not that desperate
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