A Simple And Crazy Way To Recover Your Data
Author: Ricky Lim

Here was a real life situation I was in. I worked as a IT
support staff and one day a laptop that crashed was handed to
me. After some diagnostics, I found bad sectors on the hard
disk and a lot of clunging sounds whenever I turned on the
laptop. Unfortunately, the user have some crucial data on the
hard disk and need to have it in 24 hours.

The BIOS wasn't able to detect the hard disk. So I did some
searching on the internet and found a real crazy way to recover
the data. So, I decided to put it to the test since I have tried
other ways to recover the data without success. I remove the
hard disk from the laptop and put in the refrigerator!

Now it's important you do not put the hard disk in the
refrigerator for too long. I put it in for about 30 minutes and
then quickly attached the hard disk to an external hard disk
casing and connected it to another computer via the USB port.

Surprisingly, it worked, the hard disk was detected and I
copied the crucial data that the user needed to the computer as
fast as I could.

I have done this a couple of times since then and it does
worked. However, I found it will only work for a brief period
of time. Usually, you will have a period of about 15 to 20
minutes so you need to copy as fast as possible to your
computer once the hard disk is working.

Somehow cooling the temperature of the hard disk helps a lot.
Here's another tip that I found. You can try tilting the hard
disk sideways or at an angle about 60 degrees downwards. I
found that by doing this, I can prolong the period by another
10 minutes or so.

However I like to caution you that only try this method when
all other methods of recovering the data fails. There is a
chance the hard disk is permanently damaged if it is in the
refrigerator for too long.

Also, this method will only work if your hard disk is still
spinning when powered up. If your hard disk does not spin and
is dead in the water, then this method will not work.


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