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Unorthodox methods for hard drive recovery

Have you ever started your PC and were shocked with a non-responsive hard drive? Most of us ran into this at least once in a life time, although there are those lucky people who ran into this more than one time. Let me share some tips with you, I learned these tips through trial and error and they are pure practical experience.

This simple technique is called freeze it, hit it and drop it. Do not laugh, this is a proven technique tried out in many cases of hard drive recovery and worked out. I have to admit, it worked out for a temporary hard drive recovery but long enough to copy all the important data from the drive.  I also need to say that these tricks are last ditch solutions; I do not go for them except when I finish trying all the other standard solutions but with no significant result.

Freeze it, this old trick was used with small hard drives back in the 1980’s and 1990’s and worked out fine as a last solution. The theoretical base of this that freezing the metallic component of the hard drive can case some shrinkage in it and that will loosen any stuck parts and help aligning the track head with the track itself, leading into temporary hard drive recovery that allows you to copy the most important data into another drive. Put the hard drive into a lock back and put it in the freezer for the night, this will sort every thing out if the problem is a stuck part.

If the freezing does not solve the problem, try the hit it solution. Again, I must confirm that these solutions or tricks are last ditch solution where you have tried everything and still no results. Sometimes the writing heads of the hard disk may nudge with the hard drive platters leading into – no spin situation. If this is the case you are facing try the “ hit it” hard drive recovery technique. With the hard drive well connected to the PC, turn on the PC and when the hard drive tends to spin, hit it from the 4 sides. In some case this is more than enough for getting it back to spinning, although this is also temporary but, hard drive recovery even for few minutes would be more than enough.

The last technique is the drop it, where you are supposed to drop your PC from a 10 inch high elevation to let the mechanical parts loosen up.