I swear the freezer trick does work. I've only performed the operation on IDE drives. Good Luck Mark Courtney > I have an IBM De[sk|ath]Star 60GXP. Last night it finally bit the big one, > it's making whining and clicking sounds on startup. > > Does the freezer trick work on standard IDE drives? Any other tricks I can > try? The data stored on this thing is either backed up or mostly > irrelevant, but if I could grab my /home/ partition I'd feel a bit better > about it. > > -Brian _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list