Tricks of the trade

[Shawn]

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Yup, the tried and true old clicking hard drive in the freezer trick that has served me well over the years, upon hearing a coworkers problem with a hard drive I offered up the old last resort trick as advice and sometime after that weekend this was the e-mail I received.

Well I tried out the “freeze the malfunctioning hard drive” trick and it didn’t seem to work out too well for me. My grandmother’s pc died and I attempted to recover some data by freezing the non functional hard drive but never had any success with it.

I even tried putting the hard drive in the pc as well as an external USB hard drive case.

I attached some pics of how I had things setup, take a look at them and see if I was doing this right.

Thanks,

- Ryan

[bmc]

oh my god! pwnd.

[Ken]

Nice pictures, but fake e-mail situation.

It's just one guy who got a kick out of freezing some busted ass HD he had lying around.

[Starfire]

that guy put the HD in water to make that ice block?!?!?

I don't know if some data can be recovered with low-temperature....but i don't think ryan understood the correct method. (if isn't a fake...) :rolleyes:

[Shawn]

I'm sure Ken's right, but the initial read is fun.

[KiwiCoromandel]

yeah right.....the only time that`ll work is when hell freezes over......... :)