> > I know this is gonna sound weird, but it works a lot more than you'd think. > > > > double ziplock bag the drive, stick it in the freezer for about half an hour so it > > gets chilled, then try again. > > > > Cold drives are happy drives > > I tried this with balrog on the hairstyles drive that smitt lent me. It didn't help, > the drive just continuously fails its post test (doesn't even id itself/instantiate > to the computer) with lots of clunking. Its gonna need data recovery to get anything > off of it afaict. We even tried with the drive cable running into the freezer and it > didn't help. >
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