From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 20 11:31:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF45916A4CE for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:31:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from yearning.mcc.ac.uk (yearning.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.203.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34D7943D5C for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:31:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by yearning.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 1C9MNn-000Kyu-00; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:30:59 +0100 Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i8KBUrYu032256; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:30:53 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.12.10/8.12.6/Submit) id i8KBUq4D032255; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:30:52 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:30:52 +0100 From: Jonathon McKitrick To: JohnsoBS@vicksburg.navy.mil Message-ID: <20040920113052.GA32147@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need help with dying drive/restoring data X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:31:00 -0000 On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 06:53:39AM +0300, JohnsoBS@vicksburg.navy.mil wrote: : This may sound peculiar, but take your drive out and put it in the freezer : overnight and then quick as all can be put it in and boot up and get off : what you can. I've used this technique multiple time to great success. Now that is an original idea! I'll give that a shot tonight. Any idea why this works? jm -- My other computer is your Windows box.