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[Jay Hart]

Better yet, if you can get power to the drive, leave the drive in the freezer,
connect it up, and then copy like mad.

Jay

> 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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