Hard drive freezer trick. Awesome.

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For some reason I remembered it the other way- warming a HD in an oven was the trick. Obviously I've never tried either.

OWC Jamie wrote:
Years ago with an old Quantum Atlas I did this - and it'd go about 20 minutes before heating up too much to work again. So I cheated - I put it in the ziploc bag, ran the scsi cable into the bag, and put it on the desk, wrapped in a gel freezer bag with more blue freezer blocks and covered it all with towels. Was able to get every bit of data off it that way

Now, what would be impressive is if you ran the SCSI cable into the freezer.