One funny item from the Ontrack Data Recovery list of computing disasters.
One man brought in a hard drive in a wet plastic bag. He said he had read on the Internet that if you place a broken drive in the freezer it would fix it. He tried that method and asked the recovery engineers not to laugh.
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Is the rest of the list online somewhere??
Many, many years ago when I had a couple of Seagate SCSI drives for my Atari ST (make that many, many, MANY years ago)… There was a known issue with the drive head fusing to the platter when they were shut down, preventing them from spinning back up (this happened to 3 drives that I owned). The Seagate tech told me that you could place the drive in a freezer for a few hours and that might make the metal contract enough so the head would free itself from the platter.
Or you could leave the drive in the PC while it was powered on, take a screwdriver and force the spindle to start spinning. Of course, once you get the thing spinning again, you can’t shut it down until you back up all of your data.
I chose the screwdriver method (which worked), backed up my data and swore off Seagate drives for quite a while.
That technique actually works on some hard drives. But you have to install it and get all the needed information off of it before it thaws out again. It’s not a permanent fix though and should be used as a last resort. This guy must not have read too far into the subject.
http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6255-5029761-2.html
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This technic is very popular here in Brazil among computer technicians and it actually works.
In the Info magazine where you have your column here in Brazil, they published a piece about it a few months ago, and they approved it.
The principle behind it, is that sometimes the damaged little engine that spin the disk, may work in a cooler temperature.