Stuff it in the freezer for a few hours, pull it out and give it a whirl before it thaws. I've had about 85% success. Just get your data off of it quickly. On 3/12/2010 3:44 PM, David F. Farkas wrote: > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > > > > Hi folks... > > Once again I must mourn the death of a hard disk... this time a Maxtor > External USB drive. However I would rather not mourn the loss of the data. > > Anyone have a quick, easy, very cheap suggestion for data recovery from > a Maxtor IDE drive? It's a 200GB drive but probably no more than a few > Gb of data. > > Never understand how a drive that has so little read/write activity and > is sitting on a shelf so it is never bumped, would die so fast. (4 > years?) I know that's typical duty cycle, but it runs in almost ideal > condition. <sigh> I guess I need a small NAS RAID box, eh? > > Thanx > David > > -- > !¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡! > > DAVID FRANKLIN FARKAS > www.HouseHealing.com <http://www.HouseHealing.com> > Remote Healing for Real Estate, People & Business > > Web Site: www.HouseHealing.com <http://www.HouseHealing.com> > Email: david at HouseHealing.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/HouseHealing > FaceBook: www.facebook.com/d.f.farkas <http://www.facebook.com/d.f.farkas> > FB Page: http://tr.im/HouseHealingFan > > Snowmen Fall From Heaven... Unassembled > > !¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡! > > No trees were destroyed by sending this message. > However, many electrons were sorely inconvenienced! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members