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Big Booger
August 30th, 2005, 15:18 PM
In my case it worked. I thought it was a bunch of wing wang before trying it... but I can swear by it, it does work. I think if your drive stopped working due to HEAT issues, then this trick works. If it stopped working for other reasons it may or may not work.

I got the idea from here:

http://www.meetmyattorney.com/slink/mt-archives/000275.html

But it only works for a short time. In fact, I barely got all the data off before it stopped working... but it was good enough to get my data back.. which was worth more to me than the damn drive. :D

This technique had been aluded to by zipp in this thread:

http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?p=59299#post59299
Big Booger
August 30th, 2005, 15:29 PM
Have a gander at Operation SnowCap:

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8597/harddiskfreezertrick0018hy.th.jpg (http://img231.imageshack.us/my.php?image=harddiskfreezertrick0018hy.jpg)

A bit of a large image. :D
lankan_man
August 30th, 2005, 20:51 PM
Hmmm, nice tip, but I rather not do it cuz i'm sure the minute I get it off the pc i might drop, lol i suck at keeping stuffs in gud shape :D

BTW, thats one huge pics, i could even see wich brand ur hard disk is... no J/K
Jeric Hikari
August 30th, 2005, 21:15 PM
I'm wondering how you're able to keep condensation off the drive platter.
Big Booger
August 31st, 2005, 03:14 AM
I'm wondering how you're able to keep condensation off the drive platter.

It formed on the outside of the hard disk, but I think the internal parts are air tight. :D
Jeric Hikari
August 31st, 2005, 04:13 AM
And yet you stick something that could potentially drip water onto sensetive electronics(granted not much really) into your computer.

*shrug* I put mine in a ziplock bag then in a freezer...mine however wasn't heat related in problems so freezing did nothing.
Big Booger
August 31st, 2005, 04:24 AM
And yet you stick something that could potentially drip water onto sensetive electronics(granted not much really) into your computer.

*shrug* I put mine in a ziplock bag then in a freezer...mine however wasn't heat related in problems so freezing did nothing.

I did no such thing. I put it in an external enclosure. ;) I know fully well that putting something wet in PC is crazy. :D