How to stop a clicking hard drive

People at Flashback demonstrate how to stop a hard drive from clicking.
JiggaJonsonsays...

The first time i experienced the hard drive click of death i was still a teen. Lost all my original poetry, music, and art.

It still makes me shudder to think of it.

Lesson learned. I keep a backup of everything now .

videosiftbannedmesays...

Actually recovered data from a HD that malfunctioned and had the click of death. So being a tech, I had heard of that old wives tale about putting a dead drive in the freezer. Couldn't believe it actually worked. The first time I had about twelve minutes, I froze it again, eight minutes and then a third time netted me only five, but I got all my data off it.

So it does work in particular cases; not bullshit.

jimnmssays...

This is what your comment looks like in Google translator.>> ^JiggaJonson:
The first time i experienced the hard drive click of death i was still a teen. Lost all my original poetry, music, and artporn.
It still makes me shudder to think of it.
Lesson learned. I keep a backup of everything now .

ryanbennittsays...

>> ^videosiftbannedme:
Actually recovered data from a HD that malfunctioned and had the click of death. So being a tech, I had heard of that old wives tale about putting a dead drive in the freezer. Couldn't believe it actually worked. The first time I had about twelve minutes, I froze it again, eight minutes and then a third time netted me only five, but I got all my data off it.


Not heard of this one, but read up on it and I'm intrigued. Just put my old hard drive in the freezer, cabled up and triple bagged. Fingers crossed I'll be able to recover my long lost photos.

bcglorfsays...

>> ^videosiftbannedme:
Actually recovered data from a HD that malfunctioned and had the click of death. So being a tech, I had heard of that old wives tale about putting a dead drive in the freezer. Couldn't believe it actually worked. The first time I had about twelve minutes, I froze it again, eight minutes and then a third time netted me only five, but I got all my data off it.
So it does work in particular cases; not bullshit.


Actually saved data from a server HD that nobody had seen fit to keep backups for. Before giving up and throwing the HD in the scrape heap we figured what's there left to lose and froze it, sure enough it did come back. I've tried it a couple times since on dead drives and for me it's worked less than 50% of the time, but has succeeded more than once. It is worth a shot if all else has failed and there's nothing to lose.

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