Re: Re: PC won't boot to desktop

Has anybody ever figured out why this usually works on a bad drive?
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Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 12:33 AM
Subject: [CHAD] Re: PC won't boot to desktop

> It's time to put the drive in your freezer for a couple of hours and
> after it's nice and cold slave it in another working PC and retrieve
> your personal stuff.
&gt;
> I've often resorted to this method and it has worked for me almost
&gt; every time with a few exceptions.[1]
>;
> You can try partitioning, reformatting and reinstalling any OS in the
> drive afterwards to verify if it's good or...not.
>
&gt; Tomas
&gt;
[1]<;http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/01/freeze-your-hard-drive-to-recov
er-data.html>
>
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> wrote:
&gt; >
>; > Hello,
&gt; > I am stuck. Saturday, I booted my pc and everything worked just
>; fine. After a few hours of the pc being idle, I went to the pc to do
> some work and noticed is was a little sluggish so I rebooted.
> >
>; > After it rebooted, the screen went black right the XP Logo with the
> small bar that scrolls from left to right. I did a hard reboot and
> the same thing happened.
> >
>; > Here's what I tried so far to troubleshoot:
> <<&lt;<<&lt;<SNIP>>&gt;>>&gt;>>
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--- In Computer_Help_and_Discussion%40yahoogroups.com">Computer_Help_and_Discussionyahoogroups.com, "Howard"
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> Has anybody ever figured out why this usually works on a bad drive?

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Howard

It don't usually work - it sometimes work depending on the nature of
the physical damage to the hard drive. The theory is that metal
contracts when its cold so this may free up moving parts (etc.) that
have become seized up through extreme heat.

This is only one of a number of ways to revive a hard drive, some of
these are a bit bizarre, but if your hard drive is dead and your
prepared to try anything this may interest you:

http://www.hddrecovery.com.au/downloads/200ways.pdf

A much better solution is to back up everything to a second (or
external) hard drive, and keep your freezer for produce.

Paris
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/a_ztechnicalcomputersupportforall/

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Very simple - freezing temperatures cause the metal bearings to contract
and loosen ever so slightly. Often dead drives are the result of worn,
sticky bearings.

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Howard wrote:
&gt; Has anybody ever figured out why this usually works on a bad drive?
&gt; ----- Original Message -----
&gt; From: "babaluscan"; < babaluscan%40yahoo.com">babaluscanyahoo.com>
>; To: < Computer_Help_and_Discussion%40yahoogroups.com">Computer_Help_and_Discussionyahoogroups.com>;
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 12:33 AM
> Subject: [CHAD] Re: PC won't boot to desktop
>
>
>
>>; It's time to put the drive in your freezer for a couple of hours and
>> after it's nice and cold slave it in another working PC and retrieve
>> your personal stuff.
&gt;>
&gt;> I've often resorted to this method and it has worked for me almost
&gt;> every time with a few exceptions.[1]
>;>
>;> You can try partitioning, reformatting and reinstalling any OS in the
>> drive afterwards to verify if it's good or...not.
>>
>> Tomas
&gt;>
&gt;>
> [1]<http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/01/freeze-your-hard-drive-to-recov
> er-data.html>
&gt;
>>; --- In Computer_Help_and_Discussion%40yahoogroups.com">Computer_Help_and_Discussionyahoogroups.com, <calandra1...>
>> wrote:
&gt;>
>>;> Hello,
&gt;>> I am stuck. Saturday, I booted my pc and everything worked just
>;>>
>>; fine. After a few hours of the pc being idle, I went to the pc to do
>&gt; some work and noticed is was a little sluggish so I rebooted.
>>
>>;> After it rebooted, the screen went black right the XP Logo with the
>>>
>>; small bar that scrolls from left to right. I did a hard reboot and
>> the same thing happened.
>>
>>;> Here's what I tried so far to troubleshoot:
>&gt;>

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