[RESOLVED] Re: Recovering Journal - How Long?

[Richard Hughes]

On 19 December 2011 00:46, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually, I've seen a desperation move work: Put the drive
> in the freezer for a few hours - it just might work long
> enough while at low temperature to get some critical files
> off it (this has really worked at least once or twice
> that I know of).

It worked for me. I had a laptop hard drive that made a high pitched
whine and got very hot. I had to repeat the "freeze hard drive,
attach, copy, wait 10mins for it to get hot, SCREEEECH" thing about 6
times before I got all the data off the drive.

Richard.