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:	post by menstrual_sweatpants_disco at 2006-12-05 11:49:34

xmikex said:

Somebody explain this freezer trick to me.

I've got this god awful Compaq waste of space desktop that I used in college. It's got all my document files on it and I need some of them right away. I haven't touched the thing in like a year and a half. I went to fire it up last week. It booted but it wouldn't load windows. I was able to get to the command prompt but whenever I tried to run a program it would tell me it couldn't read the C drive. Any thoughts?

You could try installing the hard drive as a secondary drive in another computer. Maybe there's a slim chance that the drive itself is not broken but another component of the computer is.

the_reverend said:

the drive-freezer thing is that you put the hard drive in the freezer and it works for a little while.
ALWAYS BACK UP YOUR DATA!

What are the physics behind the freezer trick. I want to know how a lower temperature could possibly cure failing mechanical parts.

I should email this to the Mythbusters.

succubus said:

so no one knows someone with a special room to do the data recovery???

The only people I know of with that kind of equipment are the ones that charge you a lot of money :(

Did you guys get a quote from www.mdsdiskservice.com ? I was curious how expensive they were.

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