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Wow, that old trick actually works!
Filed under: — orudge @ 14/09/2006 12:37 am
Yesterday, in a last-ditch attempt to save my hard disk, I put it in the freezer. It’s an old trick – you stick it in the freezer, the parts inside it contract, and then expand again, in theory loosening up whatever got stuck in the first place. I figured I’ve give it a shot. Took it out this afternoon, plugged it in while still cold… nothing, the disk was still clanking away and not reading correctly. Sigh, my disk is dead then, I thought. However, tonight, I thought I’d give it one more shot, now that the drive had heated back up to room temperature… and it worked! that old trick worked! The disk is still working happily now, which leaves me with a bit of a problem. I can’t send it back when it’s working nicely… I’m leaving it on tonight. “Hopefully” it’ll die again. I don’t trust the disk as it is, seeing as it blatantly could die at any minute. (I did read one story the other day of a guy who put his hard disk in the freezer. It continued to work then for over a year). If it still works after a week or so (using it for “safe” things like watching videos – no new data on there), I’ll buy another 300GB HD, RAID-1 the two of them, and hope it all continues to work. I am VERY glad to have my data back now, anyway… a better backup scheme is in order, I think! Whee! 😀
Ah, good, it just died. I’ll send it off next week. It’s annoying being without my main PC of course, but at least my data’s safe!
Comment by orudge — 14/09/2006 @ 12:50 am
I had never thought I would see someone be happy that their harddisk has failed….
Comment by John — 17/09/2006 @ 12:51 pm
We might be trying this on an old hard drive. My dad tried everything, and then you came up with this, so its worth a try especially since the drives gone waranty age.
Comment by robotboy — 25/10/2006 @ 8:23 am
It’s worth a try… it may or may not work. I found that it didn’t work immediately after taking the disk out of the freezer, but I tried it a few hours later and it was fine (for around 20 minutes). I guess if you’ve got nothing to lose, give it a go!
Comment by orudge — 25/10/2006 @ 12:48 pm