I managed to do the freezer trick with a number of older Fujitsu IDE drives, around 6-8 years ago, they used a bad batch of red phosphorous in their main processing chips on the drives, which had too much thermal expansion/contraction, which led to broken wires within the ICs themselves. The freezer trick was almost 100% effective with them.
What I would do was take a bare shell of a computer, just the cheapest motherboard in the cheapest case you could get (pulled out of the closet and dusted off), take old broken drive and new drive, seal both in a bag with cables coming out of said bag, hook to computer, place ghost disk in floppy, put entire assembly into the office freezer, run cables out of the edge/seal, small monitor and keyboard outside the fridge, and do the ghosting there. Very effective and often practiced thing back in those days. On Jan 15, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Jacob wrote: > Well.. not reinstall, but to get data off it. > > It is usually an onetime event. After that, the HD is basically toast. > > I tried it a couple times just for sh*ts and giggles. Got it to work > once, but lasted about 10 minutes. > > > > From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:55 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If this email is spam, report it here: > http://www.OnlyMyEmail.com/ReportSpam > THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND > PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE SENDER. THE INFORMATION IS INTENDED FOR > USE BY THE ADDRESSEE ONLY. ANY OTHER INTERCEPTION, COPYING, > ACCESSING, OR DISCLOSURE OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE > RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SENDER > AND DELETE THIS MAIL AND ALL ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT FORWARD THIS > MESSAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE SENDER. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
