[DM-MUG] Internal Hard Drives Shopping

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 6:17 PM, CW Smith <cwsmith7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> • Put the HD in a Ziplock back to keep frost from forming on the drive and
> to keep condensation from accumulating when it comes out
> • Freeze overnight (12 hours or so) to assure uniform temperature
> throughout. If you have a deep freeze in your basement, use that instead of
> your kitchen freezer
> • Keep the HD in its Ziplock back as you attach it to your external case or
> drive dock (not inside the computer), again to keep condensation from
> accumulating
> • Attempt recovery while the drive is still COLD, giving you more time
> before the bearings in the spindle heat up and seize again

I've done this, it worked. You don't have long so make sure you're
ready. You may want to do a test run of the software recovery on a
good hard drive to ensure you have every thing you need at hand and
know the procedure. in my case I didn't wait 12 hours (probably 3
hours) and got 2 - 3 minutes of use out of the drive.

I did not have the luxury of a USB drive so maybe you could make
better use of the time by putting the drive into the USB enclosure
before freezing it so that when you're ready you just have to plug the
usb port into an already running PC. That saves you the 45 seconds for
the computer to boot up plus the time to hook up the cords and stuff.


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