{"id":437,"date":"2018-01-30T08:46:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T13:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/?p=437"},"modified":"2020-04-24T19:24:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T23:24:58","slug":"i-heard-that-freezing-a-hard-drive-can-let-you-recover-it-from-the-click-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/2018\/01\/30\/i-heard-that-freezing-a-hard-drive-can-let-you-recover-it-from-the-click-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"I heard that freezing a hard-drive can let you recover it from the click-of-death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last time I had a drive with the click-of-death, I froze it in the freezer and was able to recover everything. I tried the freezing trick again with this drive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/04\/Freezing-HDD-for-Data-Recovery-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/04\/Freezing-HDD-for-Data-Recovery-2-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"Hard-drive covered in snow outside on window-sill\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/04\/Freezing-HDD-for-Data-Recovery-2-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/04\/Freezing-HDD-for-Data-Recovery-2-1024x642.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/04\/Freezing-HDD-for-Data-Recovery-2-768x482.jpg 768w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/04\/Freezing-HDD-for-Data-Recovery-2-1536x963.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/files\/2020\/04\/Freezing-HDD-for-Data-Recovery-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(For clarity, the hard-drive was outside of the house, between the window and the screen. I left it out for a week or so.)<\/p>\n<p><acronym title=\"nota bene\">NB<\/acronym>: While freezing a click-of-death drive can indeed help get it to work long enough to copy the files, this is <em>not<\/em> how you&#8217;re supposed to do it; it will get moisture in it which will freeze into sharp ice-crystals and drastically reduce your chances of recovering your files. Put it in a sealed bag (preferably vacuum the air out of it) and put it in the freezer. This drive and whatever was on it wasn&#8217;t important, so I was just messing around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last time I had a drive with the click-of-death, I froze it in the freezer and was able to recover everything. I tried the freezing trick again with this drive. (For clarity, the hard-drive was outside of the house, between the window and the screen. I left it out for a week or so.) NB: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/brainbucket\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}