On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 09:41:18 -0500, Karl Townsend
wrote:

On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 05:31:22 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 05:25:04 -0500, Karl Townsend
wrote:

We had a 'puter crash and lost a day's sales records and, more
imprtantly, payroll data.

I'm mounting the HD in a USB portable unit and putting in the freezer,
hoping to get one last spin.

Has that worked for you before?!


If that don't work, are there any other
good ideas? Otherwise, anybody know what a data recovery vendor costs
and any suggested vendor?

A local guy gets from $129-600 for recovery, depending on size and
importance of recovery. I guess he tries harder and longer on the
important stuff.

JOY, stuck dying drive in a USB portable case, then in freezer. it
fired up and i copied just a few K of data. A minute later i heard the
whirring squeak and it breathed its last gasp.

Timely!


A fella on RCM said a cold drive will run a bit, sometimes.

I guess it works, sometimes.

--
Doctors prescribe medicine of which they know little,
to cure diseases of which they know less,
in human beings of which they know nothing.
--Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire, about 250 years ago