hard drive went down...any way to retrieve data on it?

[Jack D.]

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.

[haikuman]

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:

[wowzer]

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:

[Buzz]

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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[wowzer]

Frozen drive back in the computer...hoping it'll work.

[wowzer]

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.

[wowzer]

Thanks, everyone who've offered to help...now I have to figure out the best way to have a funeral for the drive.

[Ken Sp.]

Were you still trying to boot from it?

[Mike V]

I had good luck with Disk Warrior early this year.