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Re: hard drive went down...any way to retrieve data on it? - Jack D. - 03-10-2012
space-time wrote:
try the freezer trick
:agree: I've saved 100's of gigs this way (because real men don't need backups). Stick it in the freezer (in a ziplock) for several hours/over night and then connect it as an external drive and immediately grab what you can, important stuff first. When it stops...rinse and repeat for as long as it takes to get what you need.
Re: hard drive went down...any way to retrieve data on it? - haikuman - 03-10-2012
Jack D. wrote:
[quote=space-time]
try the freezer trick
:agree: I've saved 100's of gigs this way (because real men don't need backups). Stick it in the freezer (in a ziplock) for several hours/over night and then connect it as an external drive and immediately grab what you can, important stuff first. When it stops...rinse and repeat for as long as it takes to get what you need.
At least you did not try and tell us Ruby's magic farts saved your hard drives :devil:
Re: hard drive went down...any way to retrieve data on it? - wowzer - 03-10-2012
Do you think Ruby would come over to help? :-)
haikuman wrote:
[quote=Jack D.]
[quote=space-time]
try the freezer trick
:agree: I've saved 100's of gigs this way (because real men don't need backups). Stick it in the freezer (in a ziplock) for several hours/over night and then connect it as an external drive and immediately grab what you can, important stuff first. When it stops...rinse and repeat for as long as it takes to get what you need.
At least you did not try and tell us Ruby's magic farts saved your hard drives :devil:
Re: hard drive went down...any way to retrieve data on it? - Buzz - 03-10-2012
Ken Sp. wrote:
[quote=Buzz]
Rather than the USB cable out of the freezer, I use blue ice in a small cooler, as it's much more portable; and convenient :-)
Again, as noted, harvest data, rather than trying to view, or repair stuff.
If so---Pictures please :-)
Just envision a lunchbox sized cooler w/ frozen ice packs surrounding an ailing hard drive... started doing that w/ 20MB SCSI drives in a small Igloo cooler circa Mac Plus era; though had an upgraded Mac 512K w/ a SCSI port screwed onto the back of the case. That was long before you actually could have too much storage capacity.
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Re: hard drive went down...any way to retrieve data on it? - wowzer - 03-11-2012
Frozen drive back in the computer...hoping it'll work.
Re: hard drive went down...any way to retrieve data on it? - wowzer - 03-11-2012
It's dead, Jim.
I think the drive is toast. It makes the nasties clicking sounds...probably a hardware malfunction rather than a controller board error.
Re: hard drive went down...any way to retrieve data on it? - wowzer - 03-11-2012
Thanks, everyone who've offered to help...now I have to figure out the best way to have a funeral for the drive.
Re: hard drive went down...any way to retrieve data on it? - Ken Sp. - 03-11-2012
Were you still trying to boot from it?
Re: hard drive went down...any way to retrieve data on it? - Mike V - 03-14-2012
I had good luck with Disk Warrior early this year.