On 19 December 2011 00:46, Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Actually, I've seen a desperation move work: Put the drive > in the freezer for a few hours - it just might work long > enough while at low temperature to get some critical files > off it (this has really worked at least once or twice > that I know of). It worked for me. I had a laptop hard drive that made a high pitched whine and got very hot. I had to repeat the "freeze hard drive, attach, copy, wait 10mins for it to get hot, SCREEEECH" thing about 6 times before I got all the data off the drive. Richard. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
