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Funny and yet so sad at the same time.

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I am studying MS VB05 right now, so if you can give me any tips or need some help on something I would be glad to help(or try).


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akretsch

I ran across your thread, Eric, searching for something else. Hope the data recovery went well! Anyway, this inquiring hobbyist tech mind wants to know. Why is that freezing a hard drive can aid data recovery. I've had 2 drives go bad and would have loved any trick. This sounds like one for the bag of tricks.

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Why is that freezing a hard drive can aid data recovery.

Back in the old days, electronic technicians would often spray equipment with Freon (R12) to try to find intermittent problems. (Nowadays, they use difluoroethane (R152) or tetrafluoroethane (R134a) instead.)

And many have found out that CPUs work better when kept cold. ( http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ad.php?t=88368 ) Let me say that Britney CPUs cooled by R410a are very fast indeed.

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Originally Posted by A friend of mine who has a Linux kernel named after his girlfriend.

If I was VirtualBox, I could load my virtualization module into Hannah and boot up another kernel in the same address space.

hstn

Local newspaper here just quit running old Peanuts strips; I was going into withdrawal, but if this thread runs a few days, I can make it through this week. Thanks for being informative and entertaining--can you lead the next seminar I have to sit through?

player911

Cooling chips is one thing. I don't think freezing a HDD will work with anything. A chip has no moving parts. Its all circuitry. A HDD has tons of moving parts and freezing will more likely kill it. Metal becomes more brittle the colder it becomes which could cause internals to break. Sure you don't want your HDD or chips on fire, literally, but HDD's don't get to the point where it needs extra cooling or heatsinks. Fans are usually installed to complete airflow coverage.

Seriously, drop it. What happens is that the inner arm gets stuck. Dropping free's it. Allowing it to work again (although it'll prolly stick again after prolonged use).
Get your data and toss it.

I used to rebuild HDD's (taking out platters and circuitry). The platters are glass and cannot have finger prints on them at all or will not work.

ericcumbee

actually i see where it could work for a broken solder point. freezing it worked for a while but now its no good, so i might try dropping it.

benots4

What's wrong with the drive that freezing will fix? If its not spinning smacking it may gar it into motion. A good thumping does a body good.

akretsch

Originally Posted by star882

Back in the old days, electronic technicians would often spray equipment with Freon (R12) to try to find intermittent problems. (Nowadays, they use difluoroethane (R152) or tetrafluoroethane (R134a) instead.)

Yes, now that you mention it, I remember seeing cans of what was called "contact cleaner." The spray was so cold it would produce momentary frost.

mofologic

you most definitely need a BIGGER hammer!!