[NBLUG/talk] Reviving a dead hard drive

[Kyle Rankin]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:40:51AM -0800, Andrew wrote:
> It appears that the hard drive in my sister's iMac has gone
> belly-up. But before I flush it down the toilet, I'd like to try
> to pull some data off of it... if I can manage to temporarily
> resuscitate it. Anybody have any experience breathing a little
> life into dead drives? Any tricks I might try?
> 
> A.
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One trick that sometimes works is the "freezer" trick where you freeze it
for a half hour to an hour, then try it again.  Also, you might have a
better chance getting data with a dd operation than actually mounting the
drive.

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