Wow, some ingenious ideas on how to get data off old drives, I'll haveta add those to my little book of tricks. Sounds similar to a guy I know that told me he fixed his waterlogged cell phone by putting it in the oven for a few minutes. -Joel --- David Blevins <david.blevins at visi.com> wrote: > That does sound corny -- can't wait to try it. > > What has me most curious is how you came across this technique. > > -David > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 03:44:29PM -0600, Mark Courtney wrote: > > This is gonna sound really corny, but it's worked for me more times > than I > > can count. > > > > 1. Take the drive out of the laptop. > > 2. Put the drive in a Ziploc bag. > > 3. Put the drive and the Ziploc bag in the freezer for an hour or > two. > > 4. After the drive is good and frozen, plug it back in and get your > data off > > the drive before it warms up. > > > > I swear it works! > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ 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