Freezer Method for Hard Disk Recovery

[Richard Urban]

It depends upon what has caused the hard drive to crash!

It is for specific troubles such as an over heating component on the drives circuit board which causes the drive to become non functional.

Note that freezing a drive can cause the lubrication in the drives bearings to become stiff which "may" cause the miniscule drive motor to overheat while trying to spin up the drive. Now you have a bad drive motor in addition.

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


Is it feasible to recover the hard disk with the following method.

http://recoverdisk.blogspot.com/2009/04/freeze-it-myth-heat-it-myth-and.html

Is it possible to recovery data from a hard disk with freezer method as described at this website. I have crashed a hard disk, and wanted to recover some of my personal data from the hard disk. It is creating some CLICK CLICK sounds. Please reply

 

[haunt]

Is it feasible to recover the hard disk with the following method.

http://recoverdisk.blogspot.com/2009/04/freeze-it-myth-heat-it-myth-and.html

Is it possible to recovery data from a hard disk with freezer method as described at this website. I have crashed a hard disk, and wanted to recover some of my personal data from the hard disk. It is creating some CLICK CLICK sounds. Please reply

 

[Malke]

It depends upon what has caused the hard drive to crash!

It is for specific troubles such as an over heating component on the
drives circuit board which causes the drive to become non functional.

Note that freezing a drive can cause the lubrication in the drives
bearings to become stiff which "may" cause the miniscule drive motor to
overheat while trying to spin up the drive. Now you have a bad drive motor
in addition.

He's just a spammer, Richard. He doesn't want your well-reasoned answers.

Malke

 

[Charlie Tame]

Is it feasible to recover the hard disk with the following method.

http://recoverdisk.blogspot.com/2009/04/freeze-it-myth-heat-it-myth-and.html

Is it possible to recovery data from a hard disk with freezer method as
described at this website. I have crashed a hard disk, and wanted to
recover some of my personal data from the hard disk. It is creating some
CLICK CLICK sounds. Please reply

Yes it can work, I had a batch of bad WD drives that developed the
"Click of death" and the common factor was that they all had a hot chip
on the controller.

To recover the data the drives were attached vis a long IDE cable, place
inside a poly bag to keep dry and that placed between two bags of frozen
peas.

As a result I no longer buy anything from Western Digital, but I still
buy frozen peas sometimes

But yes, it is worth a try as a last resort assuming heat is the problem.