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Bringing a drive back from the dead...

Have a drive that I'm connecting to a system via a USB -> IDE cable. The system doesn't see the drive. I'm sure the drive is dead. Is there a way to test/recover the drive in spite of a system not seeing it??

Thanks!

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georgecooldude

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ISoul

Oh, it's a proven method. It's definitely worth a try to put the drive in a freezer.

I've had it work for me several times already.

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chedlin

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Nguyen Huu Phuoc

Wow, put the drive into the freezer. It is very weird method. I will try when I have a chance but I don't expect that.
Thanks you for a helpful method.

ECNSSMT

http://www.drivesavers.com/ or voodoo.

I assume that you want to recover the data.

regards,

dmcoop

We recovered about 5 hard drives last year by putting them in the freezer. It does not always work . . . probably about a third of the time.

Good luck.

CraigSNYC

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Ahhhh...drive in the freezer. I've heard of that. I'll let y'all know how it goes.

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nobus

here another way it can work :

http://www.deadharddrive.com/

CraigSNYC

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None of the answers fixed the problem. I'll take care of closing the question myself.