[OT] Hard drive recovery

[David Precious]

Matt S Trout wrote:
 > On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 06:27:48PM +0100, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
 >> A cooleague of mine's hard drive is fried, [...]
 >
 > If you don't find any, there's always
 >
 > (a) the freezer

<delurk>

I did a similar trick once with a hard drive which stopped working and 
was getting very hot; I took it out of the machine (but left it 
connected obviously), and managed to copy off all the data whilst 
mopping the drive with a cold wet (but not too wet) flannel to keep it cool.

Cheers

Dave P

</delurk>


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