Wow, just froze my 1TB Western Digital Hard drive overnight and it worked.

It's been failing for a few days (that sound..... the "click of death").

Bought a new Ext Drive and I've been frantically copying over data and got about half of it before it totally died (tried connecting and disconnecting over and over to mulitple computers yesterday to no avail)....so I thought.

After quotes near anywhere from $500 - $1500 from data recovery companies (the data isn't THAT dire to me) stuck it in the freezer overnight....and after 3 or 4 disconnects and a different pattern of noise from the drive...it came up under My Computer....busy copying again.

Can't believe that actually worked.

Backup your backup :-)

PS, keeping an extra Linux window open into the failing hard drive directory structure seems to "keep it open" and "see" the drive and prevent it from disconnecting.

Posted: 04/02/2016 at 4:28PM

Wow, just froze my 1TB Western Digital Hard drive overnight and it worked. -- hokienole 04/02/2016 4:28PM

Related question for techies out there...is it possible to backup from one -- Tafkam Hokie 04/04/2016 09:27AM

You get 1TB of Cloud Space with Office 365 subscription. ** -- UTPr0sim 04/03/2016 6:35PM

You might want to consider a cloud service like Carbonite. -- PineyGladeHokie 04/02/2016 5:35PM

Freezing a hard drive and putting a keyboard in the dishwasher... -- Major Kong 04/02/2016 5:12PM

Re: Wow, just froze my 1TB Western Digital Hard drive overnight and it worked. -- jdonna 04/02/2016 4:42PM

For about $60/yr you can back up the important stuff to Carbonite and not -- Hokie Bird 94 04/02/2016 4:43PM

Don't have to panic until someone hacks Carbonite :-) -- Hokie360 04/02/2016 4:57PM

Use CrashPlan for free and backup to a friends computer. It will -- coshokie 04/02/2016 6:12PM

Encrypt prior to sending it to Carbonite ** -- HokieForever 04/02/2016 5:56PM

Yep, gotta take that backup elsewhere. ** -- Hokie Bird 94 04/02/2016 5:00PM

Wow, just froze my 1TB Western Digital Hard drive overnight and it worked.

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