Freeze Your Hard Drive To Recover Data: Myth Or Reality?

Yan Fortin of RealTechNews writes:

The guys at GeeksAreSexy (Hey, that’s me!) made the experiment of freezing a defective hard drive for a few hours in the hope of being able to recover some data out of it. So, what do you guys think? Is this a myth or is it reality? While there, you might as well look at the comments. They give several pages of interesting insights about the procedure.

“It seems that a lot of people agree that this solution actually works, so I decided to test it myself with an old Maxtor hard drive that failed me a couple of weeks ago. There was no important data on there, so losing the disk didn’t really bother me. Before putting it in the freezer, the drive was making a weird clicking noise, and the computer was showing me this message: Primary hard drive 0 not found, strike F1 to retry boot, F2 to run the setup utility.” Source:GeeksAreSexy

We Say: Doing this as a last resort solution is better than giving big bucks to a data recovery shop. If it doesn’t work, you can always bring your hard drive to them after.

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