Hard drive freezer trick. Awesome.

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I tried that a couple of weeks ago on a hard drive pulled from a G4 mini that was having a total conniption fit on me, but it didn't work worth a darn.

freeradical wrote:
And the reason this would work is?

It shrinks the metal platters inside the drive itself, ever so slightly, so they can spin through the read/write heads. There's a period of time where you are able to retrieve data, then it most likely will seize up on you again after the innards warm up.

Jeff