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Old 01-22-2012, 05:56 PM  
raymor
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Originally Posted by oscer View Post
Neat little trick i use for dying drives ... put then in a plastic bag and put them in the Freezer for a Few hours .... alot of the times you get enough time out of the drive to pull your data off ... Doesnt work all the time though
Indeed, if you failed to have a proper backup that often helps. Use dd_rescue to copy the drive if you have more than a few small files to recover.
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