Yes, I intend to dump the disk once I get everything I can off it.
I've heard of putting disks in the freezer, never tried it though. I
did consider turning the pc off overnight (I usually leave it running),
and trying again when it was cold, but at the moment it's running a
SpinRite scan over all the drives (when I checked it this morning, it
had been stuck on one block all night, hadn't moved...).
The ironic thing is that I'd recently had a tidyup of all the various
bits and pieces, documents, photos, files, directories etc, lying around
the various drives and partitions I have, and consolidated them all onto
this one partition before wiping all the other copies... Hmm, that's a
thought, maybe I can recover some of the stuff from those other
partitions...
David
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Kerry Mayes wrote:
If your disk is dying then you should replace it. It's only going to
get worse. So I assume you're just trying to get some important data
off it?
If the physical problem with the disk is related to the mechanism
rather than the surface of the disks, then you could try putting the
disk in the freezer.
Sounds bizarre I know. But I have successfully used this technique to
recover important data off a stuffed hard disk.
You need to put the drive in a plastic bag to limit the condensation
then a few hours in the freezer and the previously locked up disk runs
for quite some time.
However, this is only useful for getting data off the disk - it
doesn't repair the disk so it will die again sooner rather than later.
YMMV
Kerry
2008/7/17 David Merriman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi there,
A few days ago, a message popped up on my screen, saying that the BIOS's
S.M.A.R.T. program had decided that one of my hard disks was dying (I don't
recall the exact wording), and sure enough, I could no longer access one of
my partitions.
