[ltp] HDD emergency repair (howto)

[Helen Borrie]

At 09:12 PM 7/05/2009, Michael Gaber wrote:
>That's something I'd like to know, too, since one of them contains the
>last living(?) copy of my pgp-key for some reason...
>
>Adrian Bastholm schrieb:
>> It would be nice to have a howto with pictures :P. By the way, is there a
>> way of fixing those old IBM DeathStar drives with the clicking problem ?
>> 
>> /adrian

~ 6 hrs in the freezer has been known to work, too...when it starts clicking again, put it back in the freezer for another 6 hrs.  I rescued everything from a 250GB 3.5" disk over a two-day period in November.  I think I would have gone bonkers without the paraphernalia to mount it as an external drive, though.  I'm sure it would have been quicker if I'd known about dd at the time. ;-) 

Helen