[ILUG] Hard disk failure

[Thomas Rooney]

> On 15/06/07, Niall O Broin <niall at magicgoeshere.com> wrote:
>
>> freeze the bugger !
> [...]
>> One caution - when you take the drive out of the freezer, let it
>> acclimatise for a few minutes,
>
> I've used this trick a couple of time as well, and have always slapped
> the drive straight in out of the freezer, so I have an extra precious
> minute or two of very low temperatures.
>
> Here's a tip that has helped me:
>
> Put the drive in the freezer with an IDE / SATA (and power, if you
> have an short extender type) cable(s) attached and sticking out of the
> bag. Obviously, you need to seal the bag with tape or something around
> the cables.
>
> This way, when you pull it out, you do not have to handle the drive;
> you can just plug the protruding cables into your box (or enclosure)
> and go.
>
>
COOL=good; HOT=bad; //that's why computers have fans (and I don't mean 
us lot).

Tried this too and it has worked for me, I use an IDE to USB adapter and 
a USB extension cable
to get distance from the fridge to a working Linux box all data 
recovered with dd and then get a
new drive dd back to the new drive, put new drive in laptop and get back 
to work.

Try dry ice if you can get it ;-) best of luck!

Tom