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=== Freeze the Hard Drive ===# Remove the hard drive from the computer.# Place the hard drive inside of a good quality zip top freezer bag.# Place the wrapped hard drive inside of ANOTHER zip top freezer bag.# Place the double wrapped hard drive in the coldest part of your freezer.# Leave the hard drive in the freezer for 12 hours at least.# Once very chilled, install the hard drive in your computer and start pulling off data. Begin with the most valuable data.# At some point, the hard drive will fail again. When it does, mark the last successfully copied data, pull out the hard drive, double wrap it again and stick it in the Chill Chest for another 12 hours.# You may need to do this a number of times to get all the data you want, or until the hard drive stops working completely.This procedure ref: [http://lifehacker.com/5515337/save-a-failed-hard-drive-in-your-freezer-redux source]Review: I believe the risk here is the cold hard drive placed back in the computer will start to collect moisture, in the form of condensation, that could cause water to drip inside of your computer!Theory: Perhaps it would be best to place the harddrive in a freezer inside a USB enclosure, and after 12 hours connect to your PC via the cable extending from inside the freezer, through the door seal, and outside to your PC. the bag will have a breach in the seal where the cable protrudes so this will have to be sealed with silicone. Try recovering data while the drive remains in the freezer via the USB interface. Counter Point: Hydro dynamic bearings can't be un-frozen when they blow their seals. This only worked on older ball bearing drives. A hard drive may also fail when the ferrous media layer flakes off the glass platter. Freezing a drive with this problem will not work.== Related ==* [[Disk Data Recovery]]* [[Data Recovery From a Failing Hard Drive]]* [[CD/DVD Scratch Repair]]* [[Linux Mount Hibernated Windows Partitions]]