Freezing A hard drive

[h25520062]

Alright everyone has had a harddrive that clicks and made noise untill it just died. I have a hard drive that only clicks when I try to install somthing (windows,java,mozzila,linux,whatever) . I have heard that you can put your hard drive in a normal freezer, just put it in for like an hour or so and then plug it in and the click should stop and then it should last for a few hours. So I put the hard drive in my freezer for like 4-5 hours and then notice its all icy and then once I plug it in and it starts running warming up and its wet I was not sure if was going to short out or somthing but I hung in there and tried to install linux. and it gets farther than it did and then i hear the clicking. Has any one heard of this freezing hard drive? or anyway to fix a clicking hard drive?

 

[borat_sagdiyev]

http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/01/freeze-your-hard-drive-to-recover-data.html

 

[imguessingur]

Interesting...

 

[h25520062]

thanks for that article i didnt think of putting it in for longer ill let you guys know if it works.

 

[lhuser]

Alright everyone has had a harddrive that clicks and made noise untill it just died. I have a hard drive that only clicks when I try to install somthing (windows,java,mozzila,linux,whatever) . I have heard that you can put your hard drive in a normal freezer, just put it in for like an hour or so and then plug it in and the click should stop and then it should last for a few hours. So I put the hard drive in my freezer for like 4-5 hours and then notice its all icy and then once I plug it in and it starts running warming up and its wet I was not sure if was going to short out or somthing but I hung in there and tried to install linux. and it gets farther than it did and then i hear the clicking. Has any one heard of this freezing hard drive? or anyway to fix a clicking hard drive?

Consider this: Metal and wet will eventually equal to rust, which is not wanted. It will also short. Freezing the HDD won't really do it. The fact of a clicking HDD is that air between handle and disk being gone. The hand will be magnetised and damage will occur.

 

[imguessingur]

Well I would figure that he IS replacing that drive but doesnt want to loose any info, so that damaging that drive in the long run wont matter.

 

[borat_sagdiyev]

Well I would figure that he IS replacing that drive but doesnt want to loose any info, so that damaging that drive in the long run wont matter.

your name amuses me

 

[imguessingur]

Good to hear!

 

[lhuser]

There's only one thing: If you have a firmware corrupted HDD, like one of mine, freesing it won't do anything. The only last hope is flash the firmware.

 

[Ronco Rox]

i've never heard about that before. what person thought of the idea of putting a hard drive in the freezer anyway?