Hard Drive Recovery

[Michael Havens]

You are a comedian too! I have some drives I tried this with but it didn't
work; I have a different situation, the drives were out in a shed for about
a year.... is there any hope?
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:11 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com <
kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:

> This is what I've done in the past:
> Seal the HD inside a plastic bag in the driest environment you can find.
> Leave it overnite in the freezer (there are other opinions, I'm just
> stating what/how has worked for me)
> Have a puter ready and much better if you can hot-plug the thing.
> Have enough space for the FULL drive and get ddrescue or dd-rescue (they
> *ARE* different, and I have to research it every time).
> Lite candles, do your prayers, find you a goat to sacrifice, pull the HD
> out of the plastic bag, wrap it in paper towel in case you get some
> condensation and go for it.  Sometimes I keep it super-cool wrapped around
> some of those freezing gels.  I have never used dry ice but I have thought
> about it.  The explanation has to do with some internal tolerances being
> reduced to the point that it temporarily functions.  I try to disturb the
> drive as little as possible during the copy.  All this may be just VooDoo
> and sorcery, but again, it has worked for me.
> YMMV...
> ET
> PS: Free advice, can't sue me...   :)
>
>
> Eric Cope writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I have a Western Digital 2.5" hard drive that spins up, but makes a
>> terrible clicking sound at approximately 1Hz. The clicking is bad enough
>> you can feel it when holding the drive. I did some reading on line, and
>> its
>> beyond my skillset. Does anyone know if affordable drive recovery? The
>> data
>> on this disk is not worth thousands, but may be worth 100s.
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Eric
>>
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