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I've been trying to recover data from a hard drive from my mothers PC (needless to say, she has been useless about doing backups, or leaving the machine turned on overnight so the auto backup will run). The PC was around 7 years old, so a catastrophic disc crash was hardly unexpected: a couple of weeks ago it failed, and I went down and sorted her out with a new PC, bringing the dead drive back to London with me.
Dead hard drives can often be temporarily returned to life (even when disc repair utilities fail) by getting them really cold. So I have spent the last 14 hours putting the drive in the freezer (well-wrapped in plastic, with dessicant gel, and just the leads sticking out). After an hour, the drive is removed, wrapped in whatever comes to hand to keep it cold (in this case, a large pack of frozen chips {US - french fries}) and a towel, plugged into my PC, and files copied. This works for about 15 minutes before the heat builds up in the drive and it becomes unusable again ... so the process has to be repeated. Finally, I think I've rescued just about everything there is to be rescued.
But it is undoubtedly a very silly way to spend a day!
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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