200 ways to revive a hard drive

[ProdMaster]

Had a hardrive with some important data that I couldnt retrive because of the clicking and knocking. Placed it in seal plastic bag dumped it in the freezer,next day I was able to retrive all data,trust me after it thaw out the rest is history. I am sure a lot others will find it very useful,thanks for posting icuucme.

[Greatis]

hmmm have had no need for this yet but it seems handy. Thanx

[Krems]

i did that once and it worked!!..i jus recovered the data needed and threw away the drive after that cause it was makin some clicking noises..

EDIT: if u attempt this put the drive in a tightly sealed ziplock bag

same here

[digimon]

bombart! the man dem freeze them HD...btw, when or why must this be done?
what was the situation?

[MaxFactor1]

Thats a new one... talk about doing yur homework... great work icu... maybe i should try that with my head sometime... see what i can remember....

[Aldayne]

Pity i didnt see this two weeks ago. It's quite an unorthodox method but from what you guys have said if done properly it's rather effective. Now i wish i didn't take the screwdriver through some old ones i had, MacGyver stuff. Gracias icuucme for shining light on the thread again, i'll keep it in mind the next time i have HD problems.

[twendanewhite]

Gonna try this on my WD and Maxtor that I had thrown down for some time now.

[Ryan-ice]

yo this is what a needed

[xev6vg30dettr]

wish i had seen this earlier, cause ive thrown away so much drives wid my precious data

[nevintech]

nice info, i already knew of the freeze method it goes for sum data and audio cds as well that is "pretty" an gives you the (cyclic redundancy error) while copying files from it