[Novalug] disk :(

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi@gmail.com
Wed Jun 18 17:20:17 EDT 2008


Often the heat makes the head become misaligned, so freezing it shrinks the
parts back into a properly-aligned position.

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Mark Smith <mark@winksmith.com> wrote:

> i know a guy who recovered a disk that way... i thought the underlying
> problem he was experiencing was due to the controller hardware mounted
> on the disk.  heat caused the problem.
>
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:47:44AM -0400, Pete Nuwayser wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:29 AM, David A. Cafaro <dac@cafaro.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > <...>
> > > This can sometimes work when you have the clicking issue, the freezing
> > > can change physical properties of the metal inside the drive long
> > > enough for it to start working again.  It won't work in every case
> > > though, but so far I've had a very good record with this technique.
> >
> > That rocks.  I love it.
>
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