I've done the freezer trick with workstation/server HDDs, never tried with a laptop HDD.
Don Guyer Systems Engineer Information Services Prudential Fox Roach/ Trident 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Ph: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 www.prufoxroach.com <blocked::blocked::http://www.prufoxroach.com/> [email protected] From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Seagate HDs Anyone ever hear of putting a failed 2.5in (laptop format) HDD in a freezer? Put it in an antistatic Ziplock bag, put it in the freezer for a couple hours, then reinstall. We have about 50% success rate on that one (cloning the HDD immediately of course) David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 2:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Seagate HDs Wow, like the time we could not get a 120GB Samsung (I think Samsung) working, and some other tech took it and slamed it onto a table saying that on some of these HDDs, the park jams the heads, and he just loosed them up. It worked, and he proceeded to clone the hdd to a new one, before he destroyed the old one (awl punch I think). I miss the work, don't miss the craziness. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577 Office (707) 935-9387 Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell [email protected] From: Mike Gill [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 2:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Seagate HDs My experience with WD for the last 8 years has been the same. I'm just one man, but I consistently have the most trouble with Maxtor and WD. The oddest trouble is a few years ago I had a couple of 6.4GB WD IDE drives that would only work if there was another device on the ribbon. The drives would not operate alone regardless of jumper config. Last week, a 160GB drive in a computer I was looking at stopped working. I tried it in a USB carriage as well, in which it came up once, then went away in the explorer window before my eyes. Out of curiosity I put it back into the computer case, added a second drive to the IDE cable and boom, works like a champ. Unbelievable. -- Mike Gill From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 12:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Seagate HDs While working for a local small computer repair shop, we noticed the highest failure rate from 160GB and 60GB IDE/SATA hard drives (all brands), and more failures from Maxtor and Seagate compared to WD. The brand failure rate was probably due to number of units sold. WD used to have a great RMA process, used to get brand new drives as replacements, now get recertified (useless when drive is DOA). Hopefully the high failures for consumer drives will not spill over to the high end SCSI/SAS/FC drives. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
