So I posted awhile ago that I had had a new Seagate drive die (not
recognized by computer, made a weird "chirping" noise). I finally got
around to trying something I had always wanted to try--putting it in
the freezer.
So I put two layers of ziploc bag around the diskd and plopped it
into the freezer for about 9-10 hours.
I then took it out of the bags and hooked it up immediately to my
computer. I propped it up slightly and put a high powered room fan on
it, to hopefully get rid of condensation.
Then turned on the computer--at first it chirped a couple times and
was NOT recognized by the BIOS as windows booted. Then the chirping
stop, and I rebooted to find that it was recognized in the BIOS,
windows saw the partition, and I'm currently copying some data off--
cool!
Not Tim Lider, but the next best thing maybe :)
Scott
