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Freezing Hard Drives Really Does Work
I always thought that it was a bit silly that some people tried putting their mostly-broken hard drives in the freezer to get them working to rescue the data, but I’m a believer now. I had some important data to get off of an old drive, and with the help of 24 hours in the freezer, the Ubuntu alternate install CD (which doubles as a rescue CD) and some patience, I have emerged victorious! In the process, I learned…
- Cold hard drives work better.
- The Ubuntu install CD doesn’t have
scp, so don’t plan on it being there to transfer files over the network. - Having a spare disk with a small vfat partition is really handy when you need to copy data someplace locally and you don’t have much time.
ddis not invincible - it gets hung up on I/O errors just like lots of other tools- Don’t stop just because the drive started clicking again - I was about to give up, but then I tried one last time and got all of the data off cleanly. Of course, Your Mileage May Vary.
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