Make sure you put it in something VERY water proof. Frost on the drive will kill it faster than anything else.
Overview: 1. Carefully remove old hard drive from the computer 2. Place the hard drive in a SEALABLE plastic bag 3. Place that plastic bag in a second SEALABLE plastic bag 4. Replace step 3 until you feel safe :-) 5. set the plastic bundle in the freezer 6. wait until the drive get good and cold 7. remove the bundle from the freezer and get the drive out the plastic and into the computer asap 8. boot the machine and get whatever you can off the drive. This will likely be the last time that drive is usable, so have floppies, a cd burner, second external hard drive, network connection and server, ANYTHING just to get the bare essentials off that drive 9. buy a new drive, throw out old drive, invest in a backup solution for those important files you need :-) --- Brennan Cleveland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Justin, > > Very litterally... put it in the freezer. I think > the contraction > caused by the cold can fix come issues of older > drives, like maybe the > read/write head has crashed onto the disk platter or > something. > > Brennan > > Justin Zaza wrote: > > >Hi, I know very little... > > > >How would I go about "freezing it"? > > > >Thank you very much for your input, and P.S. I do > have > >files in it that I absolutely need! > > > >Justin > > > >--- Chuck Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>These old hard drives do go bad, often! If you > have > >>nothing to special on > >>the hard drive, just replace it with a known good > >>similar drive. If you have > >>files you absolutely need, I understand you can > >>often revive a dead hard > >>drive for a small amount of time by freezing it. > One > >>way or the other, you > >>need a different, known good hard drive. 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