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Re: [OT] HDD failure - options
Someone posted similar this a while back (was it you Nick?)
I was sceptical - but when your desparate!! - it worked well,
I saved the data (belonging to someone else)
and saved me much hair loss!
Matthew
>
> Put it in the freezer for a couple of hours - take anti-static
> precautions and seal it against moisture. Then reconfigure
> as a slave drive and boot from a different disk.
>
> If you're lucky you have about 20 minutes to copy essential
> data until the drive warms up enough to stop working again.
> It is sometimes possible to repeat this procedure several times
> before total failure.
>
> Nick.
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