[BNM] Busted Hard Drive

[Derek Clarke]

Go back in time a week, buy another drive and back it up!

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 6:25 PM, James Lawrie <stwange at gmail.com> wrote:
> I drunkenly dropped a 500GB SATA external hard drive and it just fires up
>  and clicks, that's all. I tried removing the enclosure and daisy-chaining it
>  into the PC, but the same thing happened. It's now in the freezer.
>
>  Has anyone else tried freezing a drive before? How long should I leave it in
>  there for? And if it doesn't work, short of paying for data recovery, does
>  anyone have any suggestions?
>
>  -James Lawrie.
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