Help. SATA drive fail

[freezer121]

This will sound a bit off the wall but it has worked for me on two Deskstars that failed. Put the drive in a plastic bag and leave it in the freezer for several hours. Set up your machine to use the dead drive as a data drive. Fit the frozen drive, fire up and then immediately copy off as much as you can. This seems to be a one-shot performance, I didn't manage to repeat it on either drive once I had closed down the machine.

Sounds screwy and I don't believe it comes with any guarantees (!), but it did work for me.

[rikytik]

Freezer, I tried the drive in a freezer bag trick. Didn't work. I've read about it several times over the year.

user neeeds, It looks like I can get an image in dos mode using Acronis True Image, tho if that fails, I'll try Ghost.

Also, I ran Winternals Disk Commander from DOS and note I can make some changes to the HD, which I won't do until I can be sure I've got a good image, or clone. Last night I ran Acronis which said it would run for 6 hours and I thought the disk would fit on a blank 250 GB I have in the machine but it stopped after 4 hours (out of space). Gonna put in a larger HD and see how it goes.

Thanks for the tips.