Comment - FBXL Lotide

If it is hosed, can always dead drop it from one banana worth of height on a table to see if the drive heads unlock, then try again.

Or try the freezer trick. It has been many years, but it has worked for me.

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RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
what is the freezer trick exactly?

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- PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Pop the disk into the freezer for a few hours (or a day). It has to be long enough for the components to all get cold. This shrinks the materials and could possibly unstick heads from the platters. I think it has worked two out of four attempts for me. This is a method to get access to the data of which you should extract as soon as possible.
  
  Be cautious of condensation on the cold disk as it could potentially arc circuitry.
  
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- comador@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It was a method to unstick stuck drive platters, but hasn’t worked since HDD manufacturing processes changed a few years ago. May work for certain drives manufacted pre-Covid, but that’s it:
  
  datarecovery.com/…/the-hard-drive-freezer-trick/
  
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  - 0x0@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Nothing in that link explains why i wouldnt work anymore
    
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comador@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Been so long I had forgotten the freezer trick lol. Good memories haha.

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