[huskerlug] Re: Murder mystery?

I've heard that the freezer method works. I even heard and understood a sci=
entific explanation, but I've forgotten it. This is a good thing to try whe=
n a drive is failing and you have lost or mislaid your backups. I know you =
all make backups. Sometimes you just forget to check the media, so they tur=
n out to be fancy coasters. --gk

> One 'urban legend' type of thing that I ran across and have used (with
> blind faith)....
> 
> Once in a while you'll have a hard drive that can't seem to find its
> place on a drive.   As a last resort place the drive in a zip lock bag
> and get as much of the air out as possible to eliminate condesation..
> 
> Place it in the freezer for about 12 hours..   somehow the cold makes
> the platters more dense and possibly will help it find its track. then
> immediately throw it in another computer and start dumping data to a
> good drive.
> 
> I found this in a "100 Ways to Rescue a Hard Drive" article.
> 
> 
> 
> On a lighter more off the subject note:
> 
> 
> There was this time my sister downloaded a movie on Kazaa...when she got
> done watching it, the phone rang,  7 days later she was dead.   The
> security camera captured some freaky girl crawling out of the cable
> modem and killed her... if only she had written a script to backup the
> shared folder's contents to another computer...tsk tsk tsk.
> 
> 
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