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

[Manny]

Hex Star wrote:
> On 8/3/07, Manny <cocolist at invigorated.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Yeah, I know that, but Hex's knowledge of hardware must be deficient or
>> he's not paying attention.
>>
>> -M.
> 
> He said the drive was damaged by the cable but he didn't say what the
> resulting damage was, was it data corruption? Or physical damage such as the
> drive not spinning up? I've had real experience with the freezing and
> thawing of dead drives and it does work in most cases (not all however)
> resulting in the drive spinning up temporarily giving you a chance to backup
> the data on the drive. If the drive isn't spinning up it is a good thing to
> try before investing in software or data recovery services.

He has said previously that there was possibly some data corruption. 
Telling Briza to freeze the drive before finding out what the state of 
the drive was is not the right way to go about trying to solve the 
problem. It's like trying to program without any idea what you are going 
to solve or what the point is.

-M.