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[Daniel Copeland]

Yeah, I've used that technique before.  Just be aware of the extreme amount
of condensation that build up after you take the drive back into room
temperature.

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:29 AM, David A. Cafaro <dac at cafaro.net> wrote:

> If you are having a drive seek error problem, and the tell tale
> clicking noise, you may be able to recover your data without swapping
> controllers.
>
> (don't laugh, this does work sometime, I've used the technique a
> couple of times with success)
>
> Stick the drive in a zipploc freezer bag, with as little air in the
> bag as possible.  Stick it in the freezer.
>
> Wait 4 hours at least (over night better).
>
> Take it out and quickly attached it to your computer (an external
> USB2.0 to SATA/PATA adapter works best)
>
> If it worked, and spins up, mount partition and start copying like mad.
>
> If the clicking returns before you finish, repeat above until all data
> is copied.
>
> This can sometimes work when you have the clicking issue, the freezing
> can change physical properties of the metal inside the drive long
> enough for it to start working again.  It won't work in every case
> though, but so far I've had a very good record with this technique.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
>
> On Jun 18, 2008, at 8:43 AM, Ken Kauffman wrote:
>
> > Do you hear any unusual clicking noises?  For some inexplicable
> > reason, I have had two hard drives fail in the last 2 weeks.  One
> > was a friends and one was at work.  By using smartutils and another
> > machine, I could determine that both are hardware failures.   Both
> > revealed a code 07h which is a seek failure.  So -- the data is
> > recoverable in my case, but only if I put the physical disks
> > themselves into another drive with a difference embedded controller
> > and heads.
> >
> > Ken
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Palmer <cliff at palmercs.com> wrote:
> > Greg, this is going to sound like voodoo, but this has rescued more
> > problem disks than any other technique I have used.  The problem may
> > be
> > the controller/HBA.  If it's not built in to the MB, take it out and
> > use a
> > _very_ clean pencil eraser to clean the contacts for the MB slot.
> >
> > Have you tried reading the disk in another system?
> >
> > HTH
> > Cliff
> >
> > > Yesterday I woke to a system that wouldn't boot (no grub). So I
> > booted
> > > from a rescue CD/DVD and started to recover the disk (fsck.ext3 -y /
> > > dev/sda6). There was an error about inode not a directory and it
> > went
> > > on and on and on (over 20 hours) and not finished and no more disk
> > > activity.
> > >
> > > Any useful suggestions?
> > >
> > > --
> > > greg pryzby
> > >
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