Matter of fact, worked 2 times with me (client hard drives) - but then
didn't work 8~9 times with yet other drives, so it's a chancy
proposition at best. The 2 hds did fail again after a short time, and
the process didn't work the second time.
If someone is willing to try this, do it as a last measure, after all
other tries have failed.
There are recovery experts, but often they are expensive and often the
data recovered is damaged or mixed - no names, no folders, just files.
LF
[email protected] escreveu:
In a message dated 2/19/2009 7:31:17 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
From today's New York Times...
Crashed Hard Drive
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.
“The trick is a real and proven, albeit last resort, recovery
technique for some kinds of otherwise-fatal hard-drive problems,”
writes Fred Langa on his Windows Secrets Web site. Many hard drive
failures are caused by worn parts that no longer align properly,
making it impossible to read data from the drive. Lowering the drive’s
temperature causes its metal and plastic internals to contract ever so
slightly. Taking the drive out of the freezer, and returning it to
room temperature can cause those parts to expand again.
That may help free up binding parts, Mr. Langa explains, or at least
let a failing electrical component remain within specs long enough for
you to recover your essential data.
That’s the spirit of folk remedies: They may or may not work, but what
have you got to lose?
Joseph McAllister
Pentaxian
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Interesting, never heard that one before. Just might work.
But hope I never have to find out. :-)
Marnie
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