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flip-mode · Tue Sep 28, 2004 7:28 pm

The IT guy at work swears by it. He says freeze it for 8 hours and if it don't work after that then there's only one thing left to do: drop it (literally)

I just tried freezing mine to no avail. I'm not going to drop it.

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for spelling

mattsteg · Tue Sep 28, 2004 7:33 pm

flip-mode wrote:
I'm not going to drop it.

What exactly do you have to lose?

In any case freezing/dropping/etc. only work for certain types of failures.

Luckmorne · Tue Sep 28, 2004 7:34 pm

im not sure that the HDD manufacturer would stand behind that idea :-)

for one all the tolerances in there are pretty tight and freezing it for 8 hours is going to probably induce some very undesigned thermal stresses on the components.... #2 is when you pull it out water is going to condense on it :-)

mattsteg · Tue Sep 28, 2004 7:36 pm

Luckmorne wrote:
im not sure that the HDD manufacturer would stand behind that idea
for one all the tolerances in there are pretty tight and freezing it for 8 hours is going to probably induce some very undesigned thermal stresses on the components.... #2 is when you pull it out water is going to condense on it

It's not like there's anything better to do. Those very undesigned thermal stresses are what sometimes bring a drive back from the dead for a little bit. It's not like it's any sort of permanent solution.

LicketySplit · Tue Sep 28, 2004 7:37 pm

It has worked for some here...smakky...myself and im sure there are others...forge too if im not mistaken.

Ragnar Dan · Tue Sep 28, 2004 7:45 pm

I wouldn't recommend it until everything else was tried first, though. Lickety always seems to want people to do that before any other ideas are tried. I think he wants to see the humorous consequences, maybe. :lol:

LicketySplit · Tue Sep 28, 2004 7:48 pm

It was meant as a last resort....if nothing else works....damn gerbils are eatin mean pills i tell ya...mean pills :lol:

Contingency · Tue Sep 28, 2004 7:50 pm

Obligatory Article:

BBSpot's Guide to Hard Drive Cooling

Klyith · Tue Sep 28, 2004 10:05 pm

I've tried that twice, both on IBM 60GXPs. Once it didn't help anything at all. The second time it worked. Even then I think more of the sucess was from disconnecting my optical drives and putting the bad drive on it's own channel as the master.

flip-mode · Wed Sep 29, 2004 10:56 am

Luckmorne wrote:
when you pull it out water is going to condense on it

It's placed in a zip lock bag. Then I attach the cables right before I pull it out of the freezer and zip the bag as tight around the cables as I can. There was very little condensation on that sucker.

tanker27 · Wed Sep 29, 2004 12:00 pm

It works for me (freezing)....Dropping has also worked.......JUst enough that I can pull data.

Hance · Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:55 pm

Been there done that and it works pretty well most of the time . I had a guy beg me to save 10 gigs of ahem prOn for him . I would put it in the freezer for 30 minutes or so and get it good and cold . pop it out and start copying files like mad . after 5 minutes or so it would die again . i repeated the process 6 or 8 times and got every last file for him .

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