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Hi all
I had a crashed drive years ago and was told it was un-recoverable. I tried everything even rewriting the partition tables and boot sector but still no go and then a friend told me the freezer method.
I put the drive in a bag and then sideways in the freezer for about 20 minutes and then plugged it in and BIOS could see it and then got most of the data (raw) and copied to another drive. I can't remember what program I used to decipher the files but eventually got most of it back. The cold has something to do with the platters in the hard drive but anyway I'm lucky to semi revive it for short bursts.
It made me get into a regular backup routine because one night when I'm packing up I'm bound to drop or step on my laptop and at least I haven't lost the last year's files.
So many times I hear my friends loosing all their photos but it's so easy to get complacent and not backup.
Which reminds me I should do a backup now
Cheers
Andy
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