hard disk failure - now what?

Gary Gatten Ggatten at waddell.com
Wed Aug 26 21:31:22 UTC 2009


I had a laptop years ago that started to die, but seemed to work OK when
first removed from a cold car.  After an hour or so it would die.  I
eventually put it in the freezer long enough to get what I needed off
the drive, so in some cases I would agree that cold is good!

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Polytropon
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:13 PM
To: George Davidovich
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: hard disk failure - now what?

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:13:48 -0700, George Davidovich
<freebsd at optimis.net> wrote:
> Probably true.  I hesitate to suggest this, but sticking the drive in
a
> freezer (preferrably in a ziplock bag) for a few hours or overnight
> might help.  Stories from people claiming "I swear it works!" go back
> years.  

I heared a similar suggestion from a guy who tried to get the
protection code out of a car radio. :-)



> To the exent it does work, it might give Kelly enough time to attempt
> recovery.  If more time is required, he can try and find a creative
> workaround for the 5 meter max length for USB cables. 

5 meters? I always thought USB is specified for 2 meters only.
I've never seen a 5 meters long USB cable, by the way.





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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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