Grayheart
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 Posted: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:11:23 Post Subject: |
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I seconded the freezer method, it does work for older drives (5-6 years ago). Not sure about the newer drives, but it doesn't hurt to try.
| helrazr wrote: | | Not for several years now but in the past I've rescued SCSI hdd's by freezing them. Generally speaking an always on hdd over time supposedly slightly warps the platter(s). A sudden power change would leave the disks in an un-bootable state but a couple hours frozen would often correct the problem, although I always recommended replacement after the data was saved. |
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