so my harddrive still doesn't work. i still haev it. i want pictures from it.
someone at work tells me about freezing it. dave has heard of that. says you freeze it and sometimes you can get the stuff off of it .
we froze it.
didn't work.
while it was in the freezer my dad checked to see if there was bread. i said not to mess with the hard drive and he said "what hard drive?"
he checked the entire freezer for bread (said there wasn't any) and didn't notice the hard drive just sitting there on top of the boston market mac n cheese dinner.
interesting. i've never heard of freezing a hard drive.
ReplyDeletei would think more along the lines of this: http://www.cpucare.net/Freeze_hard_drive_data_recovery.htm but i also read some sites that pointed out how freezing the hard drive could help free up the head mechanism. so i guess it was worth a shot, then.
well, anyways, on that link that company offers to try to recover your info. they don't charge you if they can't recover the info. it's just a matter of how much the information is worth to you.
for 200 bucks, if i lost ALL my pictures, i'd definitely pay. if i lost maybe 2 months of pictures, i'd still probably pay that to get the data back.
for fear that i would lose all my pictures on one of my machines, i bought this external hard drive, 500 GB or so, and backed up all of my pictures, important college files, programs, etc. now i have two picture folders, for example. one says "not backed up yet". so every couple of months, i try to remember to add those to the external and then move them to the "backed up" pictures folder.
some people would rather have their car stolen than lose their computer. a car can be replaced. you can get just about the same exact thing that was stolen. now a computer, that's a different story. all those files you accumulated... a computer is basically one's life (sorry if i'm being depressing). the plus is, your computer wasn't stolen so at least no one got ahold of sensitive data such as banking information or financial excel spreadsheets.
but "hard drives can be damaged" -- it was already dead and i couldn't get a thing from it so nothing else would make it "worse"
ReplyDeleteoh i only read the first sentence to that article just now but i think i've seen the same one before.
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