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by Brian Leahy, Dec 22, 2010 5:00pm PST

The presents are under the tree and it's a long haul until Saturday! Definitely looking foward to seeing what I've got coming to me this year and excited about what I've gotten for my fiancee.

I'm also looking forward to playing some games on my backlog from this year over the short break. What will you be playing on your vacation, if anything?

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Throwing a dead hard drive in the freezer. I'm doubtful.

Anyone ever actually had this work? I'm 0/3.

Dec 22, 2010 5:52pm PST

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Throwing a dead hard drive in the freezer. I'm doubtful. Anyone ever actually had this work? I'm 0/3. : davantalus
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  I worked at a shop, and I've seen it work for a bit. Long enough to get some essentials off the drive. : Wheatloaf
  - Of course in my case I'm pretty sure whatever my issue is, it's not the bearings. There's some seriously ... : davantalus
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  Seagate? : denixen
  - On that front... over my lifetime in computing: 6 WD's (Including one raptor!) 2 Seagate (including t... : davantalus
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  Yeah, I was blown away that it actually worked. It allowed me to salvage a lot of stuff but I had to re-freeze the sucker like 3 times.
  
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  Yeah, I was blown away that it actually worked. It allowed me to salvage a lot of stuff but I had to re-... : Herman Toothrot
- I am 5 for 5 on the freezer method. Sometimes you need to let it thaw and give it a day or two. I've gi... : Halen
- I did this and it worked quite nicely. I had a lot of data so it took 2 freeze sessions, but I recovered ... : dumb.
- It has worked so many times for me that I'm actually taken aback when it doesn't work : rosewood
- I've done it once. It worked long enough to get data off. Had to repeat it a few times. : majestik
- worked 2/2 for me. : alphablu
- 1/4 the one that worked was a 3.5, failures were laptop drives. They were also all newer. I think it... : MamiyaOtaru
- I'm 3 for 5 : breadsticks
- It's as if millions of voices of tied of women suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced : angrytaxman
- you forgot to flavor it with juice first : crypt420
- i did this once and when i took it out it was extremely cold. YMMV. : jim bone
- It didn't work for the laptop HD I tried to recover. Would have been nice. : Rag and Bone Man
- I've had it work temporarily, yeah. : Conan
- I tried it and it started to work but died before I could get any data off it. I lost a lot of projects I... : gibolas1234
- It worked for me once before out of one time but get what you want off of it quick. : Sailor of Fortune
- 0/1 here : Lucy Labia
- Work great for a temporary fix, but don't expect long term results. : InfoBiter
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  dont forget the cubes : spaceless
  - And light a candle. : KxRook
- haha woops I've had a hard drive in the freezer for at least a month. : sparkly
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  1/1 got it running long enough to get stuff off of it. : Haxim
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    ^^^ same. Gave it a whole day in the freezer, not just a few hours. : proclone1
    - I also did this with success. : deadfish
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  It worked for me on a couple of drives. I had to "hotswap" them into the already running PC, but they la... : Sludgehead
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    I've seen people nuke their IDE controller that way with PATA drives. : spazzium
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      maybe hotswap wasn't the right term. the pc wouldn't boot with them hooked up, so I left the IDE cable a... : Sludgehead
      
      Cold swap? :) : HL3dsx
      
      Steve? : someWayne
- How is it even supposed to work? : Pulveri
- I've had more success in putting the hard drives in external enclosures and getting data off of them that... : sukabljat