Percussive maintenance has saved me from countless disasters lol. Had a hard drive at work fail on me and called an anon friend over for help. Motherfucker tried everything he could think of and before giving up said 'let me try something...'
He turned on the rig with the drive connected and just lightly tapped on it while the disc tried to spin up. It dislodged part of the broken drive enough to boot successfully. Got all my files that went years without a back up and saved me hours of tedious filing.
We found that putting a hard drive in a freezer for a couple hours often got it to work long enough to remove the critical data. No joke. Literally did this dozens of times...
(Obviously this is for SPINNING drives, not solid state...)
Percussive maintenance has saved me from countless disasters lol. Had a hard drive at work fail on me and called an anon friend over for help. Motherfucker tried everything he could think of and before giving up said 'let me try something...'
He turned on the rig with the drive connected and just lightly tapped on it while the disc tried to spin up. It dislodged part of the broken drive enough to boot successfully. Got all my files that went years without a back up and saved me hours of tedious filing.
We found that putting a hard drive in a freezer for a couple hours often got it to work long enough to remove the critical data. No joke. Literally did this dozens of times... (Obviously this is for SPINNING drives, not solid state...)
Lol yeah that was the first thing we tried. Said to put it in the freezer until he got there.