For stiction; the cure is to plug it in, power it up, and grab the drive on-axis. Snap your wrist so to accelerate the drive around the spin axis. This may break things lose. As long as it keeps going...
The freezer trick, as I've used it, is for drives that spin, but don't read. If the head positioning or the electronics is marginal, this may allow you to get the data off before the drive warms up.
I suppose it's possible that freezing will alter the stiction issue, but I'm dubious.
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