his was an
MFM-connected/controlled disk. (Showing my age a bit there...)
Nick Cassimatis
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Hi Cody,
Be gentle when you remove the drive and place the drive in a shockproof
container.
Cooling the drive in the fridge maybe more appropriate.
Whatever you do don't throw it just place it gently in the fridge.
Placing it in the freezer for an hour could do more harm than good.
The condensati
t: Re: Hard Disk Recovery
Check out this Article 200 ways to revive a hard drive:
http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?src=search&id=r00320010108det03.ht
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On Friday, March 16, 2001 10:08 AM, arhoads [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Cody,
>
> freezing a drive is a new one to me.
As Richard has indicated, giving the drive a good twist does work, sometimes, it
worked for us. Also, if it is an SSA disk you might want to pursue replacing the SSA
controller. We had a disk fail and by tearing apart two SSA modules (model 020), we
put the 'bad' drive in the others module and
Check out this Article 200 ways to revive a hard drive:
http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?src=search&id=r00320010108det03.htm
On Friday, March 16, 2001 10:08 AM, arhoads [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Cody,
>
> freezing a drive is a new one to me. I'd be concerned that moisture
> woul
Cody,
freezing a drive is a new one to me. I'd be concerned that moisture
would condense inside the drive on the disk surfaces.
I've pulled drives and spun them (any smooth, slick - clean - surface),
hard & fast -- being careful not to launch the drive off a table, I'd
recommend using the floor
>I recall reading that in order to recover data of a hard
>disk that will not spin up you can rap it in plastic, throw it in the
>freezer for an hour or so, and then it should spin up when attached to your
>machine ... for a limited amount of time allowing you to retrieve the data
>off the hard di
