From: hard wyrd <hardwyrd@...>
Subject: Re: [ce-gnu-lug] OT: Hard Drive Recovery
To: ce-gnu-lug@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, June 15, 2009, 8:41 PM

If you are familiar with how materials behave "in temperature", you'd be amazed. Though its not a fool-proof solution, and I tried it _only once_ and out of desperation. Metals expand when subjected to heat. Old hard drives tend to heat up as they spin faster. The reason why hard drives have vacuumed chambers is to lessen particles that may cause friction. Friction = heat. Gets? When subjected to sudden extreme cold, the metal contracts, albeit for a short period. But then as I've said, the procedure could be one time only.

Also there's this Seagate behaviour in old hard drives (really old), that the faulty ones dont read properly when mounted "correctly" (circuit board at bottom). Sometimes you have to make it stand upright and it will read :-) .

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Simon Cornelius P. Umacob <soulfury@simoncpu. com> wrote:

I'm curious, why does it work?

[ simon.cpu ]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:22 PM, hard wyrd<hardwyrd@gmail. com> wrote:
>
>
> But you have to make sure that you are wrapping it in resealable plastic,
> and make sure that no extra air is in there. Tried it once on an ancient
> STxxx Seagate model (circa 1995). HDD worked for 15 minutes, managed to copy
> the files I needed. Then the HDD went kaput afterwards.
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Marvin Carredo <c_marvin18@yahoo. com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> ever heard of the idea in putting the HD in a freezer for 10 minutes and
>> then slam it hard on the wall?
>> they said it works....
>> no kidding...:D
>>
>>
>> ____________ _________ _________ __
>> From: Noel Martin Llevares <noelmartin@gmail. com>
>> To: ce-gnu-lug@yahoogro ups.com
>> Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 10:59:09 PM
>> Subject: Re: [ce-gnu-lug] OT: Hard Drive Recovery
>>
>> I have decided against looking for a professional and pay for the data
>> recovery. It turns out the files I need are not worth the expense for the
>> recovery. I'm still looking for ways to recover it myself. The hard drive
>> looks and "sounds" normally. But it still can't be detected in BIOS.
>>
>> Thanks for the support guys.
>>
>> Noel
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 3:52 AM, Ryan <lildaemon@gmail. com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Noel Martin
>>> Llevares<noelmartin@gmail. com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > changing power cables and IDE cables, mounting it using a IDE to USB
>>> > adapter, updating its firmware (turned out to be impossible unless the
>>> > drive
>>> > is visible in BIOS) and still no avail. Someone pointed me to Green
>>> > Valley.
>>> > I have to look for someone named Ruel Novabos...
>>>
>>> Is the HD making weird noises when you try to access it? If it, your
>>> platters or head might be messed up and you need to expect some data
>>> loss.
>>>
>>> MDR in escario did something for us once ages ago, I am not sure if
>>> they're still in business. It was also a simple case of the HD 'board'
>>> being dead. From what I could gather, they found a same model HD,
>>> sacrificed it's board and transplanted it to the broken HD.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Yan
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Noel
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:57 PM, ralph bacolod <rafiks@comcast. net>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 09:36:51AM +0800, Noel Martin Llevares wrote:
>>> >> > Can anyone here recommend someone who can recover data from a
>>> >> > dead
>>> >> > hard
>>> >> > drive (can't be detected anymore) here in Cebu? It's a Seagate
>>> >> > Barracuda
>>> >> > 80GB 7200RPM. I just need to get some important documents from
>>> >> > the
>>> >> > drive.
>>> >> > Thank you.
>>> >>
>>> >> What have you tried so far?
>>> >>
>>> >> --
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