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200 ways to revive a hard drive www.techrepublic.com 200 ways to revive a hard drive We based one of our most popular pop quiz challenges on a situation every tech support person has faced or will face at least once: a failed hard drive. In that particular case, a Compaq Prolinea 4/66 user was getting errors like "disk 0 error" and "invalid drive specification." Here were the other facts in the case: · · · · The data wasn't backed up. The problem came out of nowhere. The user had accessed Setup and tried to manually enter the settings for the drive type when "Auto" didn't work. There was no startup disk made by this machine. Reviving a drive like that one--even if only long enough to copy its data before you throw the drive in the garbage--is a tough challenge. When I asked TechRepublic members how they would troubleshoot a situation like this one, we received over 200 solutions, and we heard from a number of TechRepublic members who wanted to know "what everybody else suggested." So we decided to publish this collection of over 200 ways to revive a hard drive. In editing this document, we tried as much as possible to preserve the voices of the TechRepublic members who submitted these solutions. Of course, as the legal blurb at the end of the document declares, we can't promise that any of these tips will work in every setting. But we thought you'd enjoy reading what your fellow IT professionals had to say on this subject. Enjoy! How to revive a hard drive Freeze it...2 Drop it...9 Hit it ...10 The rest of the solutions ...14 Page 1 200 ways to revive a hard drive www.techrepublic.com Freeze it From: Travis Standen One trick I have learned as a technician, when the problem is data-read errors off the platters themselves, is to freeze the hard drive overnight. It makes the data more 'readable,' but for a one-shot deal. If this data is critical, and you have a replacement hard drive (which, if it's a drive failure, you probably do), then you can hook up your frozen hard drive and immediately fetch the data off before it warms up. From: Thedeedj If the problem is heat related, I put the drive in the freezer for about 15 minutes to cool it down... sometimes this gets the drive up long enough to copy any critical files... From: Itguy1 Put the drive in a waterproof sealed bag, put it in the fridge for an hour or so, then have another go. From: Kelly Reid Well, I won't start playing with your specific situation, too many steps or possible solutions where everything starts "If that last thing didn't work try..." But I'll give you one for free that was a nice hero moment for me. Had a drive where it sounded like the drive mo