Just a little story for those of you that sometimes have dead harddrives.
Six months ago I built a system with a seagate 80 gig ide drive.(5 year warranty)
Well 3 days ago customer phones and says system will not boot at all. She drops it off and i put it on the bench to diagnose.
On boot all i get from the harddrive is a kind of clicking noise.
System will not boot at all and it will not find the harddrive in bios.
No detecion at all.
I try the seagate tools and even it will not find the harddrive.
Now I am concerened because she has buisness info and of course it isn't backed up at all.
So i call seagate, describe the drive and also the difficulties.
Their final word is ,It's all gone and no recovery short of a harddrive recovery by a specialty recovery place is possible.
Not liking the sound of this I proceed to put the harddrive in a plastic bag and dump it in the freezer for 24 hours.
Nothing to loose right.
24 hours later i setup the machine with a new drive in it,ready for a copy and connect the drive and boot to ghost.
Dam it detects the drive so I start copying immediately.
10%,20% it stops dead. Dam
So back in the bag and back in the freezer for 24 hours.
meanwhile i get 2 of those ice bags you ice you shoulder with and prepare for copy again.
Out of the freezer comes the drive this time wrapped by 2 ice bags. I boot to ghost, and WOOOHOOO i copy both partitions before the drive stops dead again.
Rescued all the info and made the customers day.