Nice advice, but I'd backup that disk pronto if I were you.
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Anton Xuereb <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
