{"id":959,"date":"2010-06-04T14:08:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T18:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/2010\/06\/data-recovery-techniques.html"},"modified":"2010-06-28T10:57:12","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T14:57:12","slug":"data-recovery-techniques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/2010\/06\/data-recovery-techniques.html","title":{"rendered":"Freezer Burn: Data Recovery Techniques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/l_2048_1536_E402BB79-9F51-4061-97AC-28EC793C4B61.jpeg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/l_2048_1536_E402BB79-9F51-4061-97AC-28EC793C4B61.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-958\" title=\"l_2048_1536_E402BB79-9F51-4061-97AC-28EC793C4B61.jpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/l_2048_1536_E402BB79-9F51-4061-97AC-28EC793C4B61-e1275677746758.jpeg\" alt=\"Freezer Burn!\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One way to revive a dead hard drive is to pull it out, stick in an external enclosure and freeze it. The first time I did this it was just the naked drive. After putting it in the enclosure, it still didn&#8217;t mount.<\/p>\n<p>The 2nd time I kept it in the enclosure, sealed in a freezer bag and left in the freezer overnight. The next day, the Windows paritition mounted, but the Mac parition didn&#8217;t. Though it could be seen by Disk Utility. A scan basically returned a corrupted unreadable drive.<\/p>\n<p>I turned the drive on and off to see if jump starting it would help, but that only served to kill the drive again and render it unmountable &#8211; again.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now the third go. I downloaded demo versions of Data Rescue 3, Boomerang and VirtualLab. Data Rescue couldn&#8217;t find any recoverable data on the quick scan.  Currently deep scanning but considering it has only scanned block 25,537 of 584,843,264 &#8211; it may take a while.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing that keeping the freezer door open is a terrible waste of energy, the laptop is now sitting on top of the fridge and connecting to the hard drive in the fridge via FireWire.<\/p>\n<p>Hoping this will do the trick.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson: back up at least once a week if not more. I last cloned my drive a few weeks ago and luckily have everything before then saved, but data recovery is still the pits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One way to revive a dead hard drive is to pull it out, stick in an external enclosure and freeze it. The first time I did this it was just the naked drive. After putting it in the enclosure, it still didn&#8217;t mount. The 2nd time I kept it in the enclosure, sealed in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teknevision.com\/extant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}