In article , Jonathan N. Little
wrote:
Place drive in zip lock bag overnight in freezer. Quickly attach to PC and
try to transfer files.
Believe or not I have done that and is sometimes works.
more often, it makes it worse. you were lucky.
it's a *very* bad idea for all sorts of reasons. ask the drive recovery
companies how many drives they get from people who thought they could
do it themselves by freezing them.
https://www.gillware.com/blog/data-r...eezer-data-rec
overy-myth/
Just like pseudoscience in the world of medicine, the freezer trick
³works² just barely often enough to encourage people to spread the
idea to friends and neighbors. And when it ³works² it is only because
the drive exhibits intermittent behavior. Thereıs a 99.9% chance that
not putting it in the freezer also would have resulted in the same
data recovery outcome.
....
When a failed drive comes out of the freezer and works again, itıs
only a matter of luck. Exposure to cold will not restore a dead
sectorıs magnetic field or fix a corrupted partition table. It wonıt
make blind read/write heads suddenly see, nor will it salve the burn
on a fried control board. Quite frankly, people with freezer trick
³success stories² are just lucky they did not make their hard drivesı
problems worse.