martes, 13 de abril de 2010

How to SAVE that fu*ked up Harddrive!

Ever had a hard drive crash on you and had all of your files, movies, porn, etc on that drive? Thought you were fu*ked? Yeah, you were. Jk jk jk. There is a 50% chance you could get it all back! Now, I’m not saying that it is a 50% chance all the time, but there’s definitely a chance for a 50% chance.
Here’s what you do. Put your hard drive in the freezer for 10-20 minutes. After that you’ll have a small window of time to move all of your stuff to another hard drive. I’ve done it at work two or three times before and it has worked! But yeah, don’t think that it can save you because it really depends on how bad the hard drive is. Good luck!
How to!

Remove the hard drive from the computer.
Place the hard drive inside of a Ziploc freezer bag. (Don’t buy a cheap bag.)
Place the wrapped hard drive inside of ANOTHER Ziploc freezer bag. (Yes, you need to do this) (see figure 1 below)
Place the double wrapped hard drive in the coldest part of your freezer.
Leave the hard drive in the freezer for 12 hours, at least. You want it good and cold! (see figure 2 below)
Once very chilled, install the hard drive in your computer and start pulling off data. Begin with the most valuable data.
At some point, the hard drive will fail again. When it does, mark the last successfully copied data, pull out the hard drive, double wrap it again and stick it in the Chill Chest for another 12 hours.
You may need to do this a number of times to get all the data you want, or until the hard drive stops working completely.

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