[Hidden-tech] So sad... USB Drive died...

David Korpiewski davidk at cs.umass.edu
Fri Mar 12 15:55:11 EST 2010


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:
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> Hi folks...
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Thanx
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