When I opened the message, I found that Kylde had written:

> Last resorts ... is this a standard desktop ide drive? Try chilling it 
> in the fridge. If there is still NO power at all after that, and you 
> have decided it is DEAD, USELESS, hold the IDE drive level and slam it 
> firmly against a hard horizontal surface (concrete floor?) once, I've 
> twice seen this revive a "dead" drive long enough to get SOME files off 
> it. Maybe it "unsticks" a stuck drive head on a platter or something.

For sure!!  I was definitely planning to do that!

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