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author: m3vuv
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 15, 2021, 12:21:05 pm
content: hi all,the otherday my game console hd died,there was about 75 game images on it so a lot of work to find them all againe,anyway i hooked the drive to my pc to try and drag the data off of it,all i got was a repeated loud click click from it and no drive recognised!,i decided to put said drive in the freezer overnight,at the moment its sitting hooked up to my pc transfering data ,so seems to be working ok at the moment,any ideas why this is so?

author: BradC
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 15, 2021, 12:39:25 pm
content: Because it's stuffed and getting it cold played with the mechanical tolerances enough that you appear to have gotten lucky.There's lots of conjecture about why it works, and probably differently for a number of different failure modes. It also often doesn't work at all.If it works then you've won.

author: m3vuv
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 15, 2021, 01:02:17 pm
content: well so for 50% has copied,saying another hour to go,fingers crossed it completes,its about 240gb of data,it will save a lot of grief if it works!.

author: magic
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 15, 2021, 01:46:33 pm
content: LOL.With a sufficiently long SATA cable you could operate it permanently in the freezer if that's what it likes

author: Nusa
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 15, 2021, 01:52:15 pm
content: It's a trick that sometimes works...don't expect it to work indefinitely. If he gets all of his data, he's very lucky. This time.The question is, have you learned your lesson about keeping data you value in more than one place? AKA backups.

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 15, 2021, 02:42:55 pm
content: Quote from: Nusa on November 15, 2021, 01:52:15 pmDo most game consoles even have options for easily backing up game saves?

author: m3vuv
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 15, 2021, 11:28:17 pm
content: well i got all the data off of it,its an old ps2,it wasnt the game saves i wanted but the game isos.

author: shakalnokturn
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 15, 2021, 11:52:01 pm
content: Quote from: magic on November 15, 2021, 01:46:33 pmI've actually been in that situation. USB to SATA in freezer.A partly successfull copy that took about 2 days on the run.Too many problems with Seagate and Maxtor over the last decade I only buy HGST spinning drives now.

author: OscarSellers
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: February 27, 2022, 04:28:27 pm
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author: Terry Bites
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 01, 2022, 04:19:13 pm
content: The frigde method rarely works. It costs nothing to try though. USe foresnic recovery software if you an afford it.

author: tooki
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 02, 2022, 03:54:18 pm
content: Quote from: shakalnokturn on November 15, 2021, 11:52:01 pmYou do realize that HGST doesn’t exist any more (bought by Western Digital in 2012) and that Maxtor isn’t actually a manufacturer any more (bought by Seagate in 2006 and only used as a second marque)?