[Coco] Need to know if I'm in safe waters here

[mike delyea]

If the drive is still recognized by the BIOS then there's a good chance you
can get the data from it.  I have some "professional" quality software that
can recover data from even a "ghosted" over  or formatted hard drive.  I'd
be willing to take a shot at it if you pay the shipping.  If the drive has
developed bad sectors in important data areas all is not lost either, I also
have some software that can sometimes recover the data there too.

On 8/3/07, Rod Barnhart <rod.barnhart at gmail.com> wrote:

>

> On 8/3/07, Brian Blake <random_rodder at yahoo.com> wrote:

> > Yeah, I'm sure the condensation from thawing, both inside and outside

> the HD would play havoc with the drive electronics, not to mention the

> platters and R/W heads inside...

>

> Probably. Fairly recently I had a couple of drives with data I would

> have liked to have saved, but wasn't worth taking to an expert. So I

> tried a couple of the urban legends. Freezing one of the drives did

> absolutely nothing to recover it, and probably lowered the chances of

> success by a data recovery service, should I have decided to have gone

> that route next. I'm sure this method worked for someone, once, a long

> time ago. But the likelihood of repeated success with it is slim to

> none.

>

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