Musings of a technophile

So I recently had a friend read my blog post about recovering a hard drive while he was going through my site. He had a drive that had died and it wouldn’t even POST in the BIOS. Apparently after reading my post he decided to give the freezer trick a try. He tested the drive before freezing it and sure enough it still did not POST. He put it in the freezer for a few hours, then brought it out and wiped the condensation off of it. After this he plugged the drive in and viola!

Honestly I was surprised.  I thought for sure that if the drive wouldn’t even POST and wasn’t making any funny noises on boot up then the freezer trick surely wouldn’t work.  I mean I would think that the controller was bad and that you need to get another replacement controller (possibly from another of the same or similar model hard drive).   So still not sure if it was the controller or the the drive heads, but in any case – it worked!  So from now on if I or someone I know has a drive that dies outright, I’ll be trying to freezer trick; who knows, it may work.