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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
• 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