The Hard Drive In Freezer Trick
…to recover data from a damaged drive did not work for me this time. I wrote about my hard drive dying and losing some family pictures last week. One of the tricks used to recover is to stick your broken driven in the freezer over night. The theory is that the metal parts will contract enough to be able to sue the drive temporarily, long enough to grab your last data from the drive.
Note: Put drive in ziplock freezer bag to avoid moisture. I will note that I did do this and still got a lot of condensation on the drive when I pulled it out. There was enough water there to worry me.
This operation was not a success and patient died.
I have also heard of people doing the same thing by sticking drive in oven on low temperature. This seems very weird to me. Not sure why you woudl want metal and part to expand.
At any rate- drive gone.
Wow, that is something I have never heard of. Although it didn’t work for you, it seems to make a little bit of sense, depending on why it crashed to begin with. But yeah . . . I am not really sure that putting your drive in the oven, what good that would do.
Thanks for enlightening me on freezing my hardware!
he he, i can’t believe that you did that
now put him in a microwave 
when hard drive is dead it’s dead so you can put it in a gust, water on the sun wherever you want it will still be dead 
I have never heard of this before, I guess I will have to try it on my collection of dead hard drives. I currently have 20+ dead hard drives at my workplace that I could use.