Frederick Navarro posts (clipped):---

<<<< I haven't tried this though, but I heard from
many people that this works. Try to place your hd in your freezer at least
30 minutes, 1 hour much better and place it back into your PC.>>>>

Just a little warning. This is an extreme measure and is meant as a last resort where one is sure  that the HDD is toast and tries to recover bits of data in sort of installments (freezer to-pc-to freezer-to pc....cycles.)

there are procedures to put in freezer and connecting to pc without moisture.

I would suggest you browse the pc build archives for aug/sep. sorry off hand I do not remember the header.

HTH and good luck----Venkat Viswanathan

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