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  1. April 5th, 2001, 05:42 PM #1
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    Post What's the best way to recover a dying hard drive? n/m

    Anyone with any special tech's to recover or help salvage a dying hard drive?

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    Originally posted by rblockmon:
    Anyone with any special tech's to recover or help salvage a dying hard drive?

    thanks all,

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    I have heard the spinrite will help you get your data. As far as physically salvaging the drive, I have not heard of anything that will reverse physical damage.
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    Are you trying to recover data off the drive or just resurrect a malfunctioning drive?
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    Originally posted by rblockmon:
    Anyone with any special tech's to recover or help salvage a dying hard drive?
    What are You mean saying about "dying HDD"?
    Some bad sectors,wont spin up at all,or something else? All these problems have different solutions,though.
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  5. April 6th, 2001, 10:59 PM #5
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    if it clicks and won't boot...and you REALLY REALLY want the data off of it, ice the thing! No, I'm not BSing, put the thing in the freezer for a day or 2, then pop the bad boy in, and pray you get that 1 last boot so you can get the data off...worked fer me! twice!
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  6. April 7th, 2001, 01:20 AM #6
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    More info needed. There are lots of ways!
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  7. April 13th, 2001, 02:27 PM #7
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    I too have two dying HDD's - both 2.2 gig seagates - the freezer worked for me - AMAZING - thanx Fubarian for that

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