Allen Davis wrote:
>
> I also have a giant box of seemingly dead hard drives I've never been
> able to toss out. I'm going to give the freezer trick a tryout. The
> logic seems sound. I have heard of stranger things that worked in a pinch!
>
You can also try -- first -- taking the drive and
giving it a quick, hard palm jab. Sometimes that will
loosen the heads. Again, this is a stop-gap measure to
off-load critical (read games, old software, somebody's
email addy) from old drives.
William
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