[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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