I actually refrigerated an entire laptop once for a couple of hours. And it
came up long enough that I could offload all the data.
The explanation I was given was that cooling thickened the failed
lubrication on the bearing, allowing it to get up to a functional speed.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vicky Staubly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] dead drives fixed in freezer?
On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Steve Rigby wrote:
On Jul 2, 2008, at 12:43 PM, Janaki Kuruppu wrote:
So, does someone have a scientific explanation for _why_ freezing
works??
And, should you spin the drive up while still "frozen," or allow it to
"thaw?"
As someone who has successfully used this technique, no, I did not let it
thaw. I put it in the zip-lock baggy, put it in the freezer overnight.
Then took it out of the freezer, out of the zip-lock, then connected it
to a different computer as a secondary drive and booted it up. Then I was
able to copy all the needed data off it (I did it in order of priority,
getting most important data off first, in case it died again).
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Vicky Staubly http://www.steeds.com/vicky/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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