I've actually tried the 'ol freezer deal a few times with no success. We've worked with Ontrack for a few HDD's and although pricey, they've worked all the time and the turn-around was lighting fast.
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Jonathan Link <[email protected]>wrote: > Speculating about the increased cost they quoted...probably has to be done > more than one time to pull the data from it. > The drive may heat up enough where it locks up again, so they have to go > back and freeze it multiple times...a hassle. > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Jonathan Link <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Seems like it could be a good candidate for the freezer trick... >> >> http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/01/freeze-your-hard-drive-to-recover-data.html >> >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Alverson, Tom (Xetron) < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> A friend has an external Seagate 1TB drive that died on them and it has >>> the only copy of a lot of the photos they took. I took the USB enclosure >>> apart and connected the SATA drive up directly to a PC, but the motor does >>> not spin at all (you can hear the heads move some at power up). She took >>> it to a local shop where they said it would cost $300 to recover the data, >>> but then changed that to $1000 when they found out it was a “large” drive >>> (1TB). >>> >>> >>> >>> Does anyone know of a good affordable place that will do this? Their >>> pictures are not worth $1000 at this point. >>> >>> >>> >>> Tom >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
