Hard drive resurrection
posted Nov 17th 2005 11:00am by Eliotfiled under: laptops hacks
Follow along as reader [anonymous Gort] swaps the guts of two hard drives to bring one back from the land of the dead.
Someone at work had a laptop computer they never backed up. They traveled 1000 miles to give a presentation, using the laptop








i’ve also had alot of success with freezing the hard drive. take care not to let ice crystals form on it (…or inside it). it usually has a reduced read speed and it eventually stops working again, but freezing the drive gives you plenty of time to get the data off, or even boot from it if thats what gets you happy. i’ve tried this three times with success each time.