My freezer is going to be full tonight!

Cyre · Post by **Cyre** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 5:41 am

it was amazing when i read it four years ago and it is still amazing now.

by the way i wouldn't mind if skynet made sexy robodolls to conquer humanity...

HJ_KG · Post by **HJ_KG** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:16 am

Makida · Post by **Makida** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:30 am

That article makes me feel many human feelings with my human organs

madpeople · Post by **madpeople** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 9:11 am

Doubt you'll be able to pull 5TB with freezer method, prioritise what you pull first.

coopertronic · Post by **coopertronic** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 1:39 pm

A portable clean-room and plus drive spindle and heads is the best way to recover data. Carefully transfer the platters to the new caddie. There are a few firms supplying them, but if you want to go down the cheap road then try this.

>> Cleanbox DIY <<

SP4WN · Post by **SP4WN** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 2:16 pm

So far I have 200GB across 3 drives, 1 just wont initialize.

Plugging another one in now.

I'm not looking for a permanent solution to fix them, I have a couple of drives with more than enough room on them to copy whatever I can to.

The drives in all are quite old Cammy, and were used as server drives and storage drives in a bay for various projects and clients. This led to the drives being up and on 99% of the time, they served their purpose but died before i could transfer the data off.

Post by **BackTrak** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 4:24 pm

The freezer works, I've done it several times in the past with success. Try it several times if the first try doesn't succeed.

Try to do it when the humidity is low, or stay air conditioned!

Bard · Post by **Bard** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:59 pm

SP4WN wrote:QUOTE (SP4WN @ Jul 28 2011, 09:16 AM) So far I have 200GB across 3 drives, 1 just wont initialize.

Seriously. SpinRite. I've seen it work miracles on drives before and if you can't afford it, there are *cough* other ways to obtain it. For an incredibly small (several megabytes) program it truly is a thing of wonder. It should be able to solve these problems for you long enough to allow FULL data transfer, even on the one drive that might have a bad MFT.

FIZ · Post by **FIZ** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 10:07 pm

Cyre wrote:QUOTE (Cyre @ Jul 27 2011, 09:18 PM) that is absolutely disturbing

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html

$#@! that. 11 pages? Computers won cuz humanity is too lazy to read.