The articles are quiet long but i think it is very useful especially for those who wanna revive their hard-disk back...

200 Ways To Revive a Hard-Disk

This post has been edited by sendo: Jan 20 2005, 11:10 AM

These methods of reviving harddisks are only for retrieving lost data purposes. Therefore the harddisk might be able to run for a short period while you're transferring your precious data into another harddisk. Don't expect your harddisk to work as though it's back from factory.

This post has been edited by wishbone: Feb 19 2005, 11:20 PM

The method they use, wouldnt it shock the system? I mean if you freeze the hdd, there should be some water in the hdd & on the circuit board when you take it out from the freezer rite?

put it in plastic first..then throw it into freezer....

In our country with humidity of 60% , the H2O in the air trapped in the plastic bag will condense and damage the HDD if u put in a freezer.

This post has been edited by Da'men: Apr 16 2005, 09:19 PM

erm . .i have try put the hdd in to freeze before it work a around one hour before back dead..

hahah i dunno this is a joke or wat...

but i have a dead hdd.. no harm try.. but din work..

this trick also need to see hows the condition of our spoil hdd rite ?

use a vacuum to suck out most of the air before sealing it

i don think it can damage..my friend have tried it..
:0

I'll buy a new hardisk.

Most of those methods there do NOT work actually (many are considered "myths", most are very old and not applicable to modern HDDs). The possibility of success is like 0.001%, depending on the type and state of HDD malfunction. The "freezer trick" will further damage the HDD internally and its not recommended if you are trying recover very important data. Its impossible to revive HDDs from the following failures:

1. Firmware corruption (spin-up but data inaccessible, incorrect drive name detected)
2. Head crash (cannot detect, data inaccessible with metal scraping sounds)
3. Dead controller board (no activiity, no spin-up, usually blown controller IC)
4. Failing media (more bad sectors build-up, data inaccessible, platter contamination)
5. Mechanical failure (spindle motor stuck, voice coil jammed, head fly off, etc)

The first 3 are common failures on modern HDDs. Nowadays HDDs use FDB motors (no more ball bearing ones) and have better longevity. The freezer trick only works with ball bearing motors. As for platter contamination several manufacturers got into that situation before (IBM and Maxtor included) some years back.

i have 2.5" 30GB hdd.. just corrupted yesterday i guess all the failures above is related to it. making sound, and my laptop cant detect anything.. and it just keep on spinning.. i guess can throw oledi ah?