[Novalug] Hard Drive Data Recovery

[Mike Shade]

Hard drives can get hot -- really hot.  Metal expands when it gets hot, and
over a period of time can deform past the tolerances of the design. 
Putting it in the freezer forces metal parts with the least tolerance to
contract and can often bring it back into a workable state -- sometimes
permanently, but more often than not only until it reaches normal operating
temperature again.

A common method, and I assure you, not a myth!

-- Mike

On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:12:25 -0400, Angelo Bertolli <angelo at freeshell.org>
wrote:
> Mark Smith wrote:
>> there are two things you can do yourself (neither of which i have
> tried).
>>
>> if you suspect the controller is bad, find another exactly the same
>> disk drive.  swap the controllers.
>>
>> if you suspect a heat related problems.  stuff the disk drive in the
>> freezer and read what you can as quickly as possible.  i know someone
>> who was successful using this method.  this is listed as a "myth" on
>> the page you specified so ymmv.
> This worked for me once, but I have no idea why it worked.  I didn't
> think it was a heat-related problem, but instead a humidity-related
> problem.  (Actually neither make a lot of sense.)
> 
> 
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