At 1:43 AM -0800 2/10/05, Zoltan Batiz wrote:
Ok folks. . .I've got a 75 gig IBM hard drive that sounds like a plane taking off during initial boot, and a saw mill during normal operation. Which is recommended? Freezer? Or Oven? Does anything think that one or both of these ideas might fix the drive before the bearings go bad? (I can't believe I'm asking this, but hey, Bob's right. . .you never know what you'll learn on a Mac List!!
If it's working now then get the data while you can and toss it. -- Clark Martin
Zoltan,
I happened to hear a talk radio show last week hosted by Kim Komando. I'd never heard of this program, but it was the audio being broadcast on our FOX weather channel. She apparently answers all sorts of computer questions on her radio show as well as her website. Every question and answer I heard was Windows-related.
Anyway, she said that she had one time recommended to someone with an apparently dead hard drive that they remove it from their computer, freeze it overnight, pop it back into the computer and save the info onto another hard drive. It was not the topic of conversation, but just a mention of advice she had given on another program. I had NEVER heard such advice, but here it was recommended by an expert on national talk radio.
So, now you are the second person I've heard mention freezing hard drives as a last-ditch effort to retrieve info. Check out her site at www.komando.com --- maybe there's a mention of it there.
Claire
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