RE: IBM Hard Drive Failure

["Paul" <p-gale@xxxxxxx>]

I guess you have to be careful which container you take out of the
freezer and put back in your case - raspberry ripple ice cream can be a
bugger to clean off your processor heatsink!  :-)



Paul.



-----Original Message-----
From: Sullivan, Glenn [mailto:gsullivan@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 11 April 2003 17:27
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] IBM Hard Drive Failure



Just wondering where the two hours come into play... I use this trick
all
the time, and the only difference is that I use a silica pack in the
static
bag I seal it in, and I leave it overnight at least!

(I forgot one in the freezer for a week before, and still recovered data
off
of it...)

Just curious... to each his own, I guess...

Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I  MCDBA
David Clark Company Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Austin [mailto:nick1@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 11:45 AM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] IBM Hard Drive Failure


At 03:57 PM 4/11/03 +0100, Paulyahoo wrote:

> Not my week for self destructing hard disks, I have a 40gig IBM
deskstar
> that has gone tits up in one of my desktops.

Freezing a hard drive will sometimes kick-start it into working
for up to 20 minutes.

Put it inside a water-tight container then inside a freezer.  Don't
leave it in there for more than two hours.  Then put it back either
on the secondary IDE channel or as a slave drive.  Boot from a
different hard drive and recover as much data as possible before it
fails again.

Nick.



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