hmm, I have a lappy drive that died mysteriously &
only chirps without spinning.
Will have to try this!
Scott Sipe wrote:
> 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
>
>
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