This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: Receipe for Frozen Hard Drive A La' Mode?

Well after freezing I do get a more pronounce clicks then silence of the drive. Oh well maybe with a little bbq sauce next.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Benny Christensen <benny@...> wrote:
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> Freezing may not work depending on how old the drive is.
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> If it is fairly new, say less than 3 years old, and has the click of death; you may need to send it off for data recovery.
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> There are a whole slew of Western Digital drives that simply stop working. They also fixed it so that you can't swap controller cards from one drive to another.
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> Good luck.
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> Benny Christensen
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> On Jul 25, 2013, at 3:17 PM, John Moore wrote:
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> > Tried the maintenance drop on a defective Hard Drive to no avail. Now I'm trying the Mr. Freeze. What's a good time to leave the drive in a sealed plastic bag in the freezer. Do I thaw it out in the microwave afterwards? ;-) Just kidding about the thaw.
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