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Does putting your Hard Drive in the Freezer to Recover Data work?
So does putting your hard drive in the freezer actually work if you want to recover data. Well what happened is in 2010 I bought computer parts, put them together [as I do with all my machines] and off it went. AMD Phenom x4 955 with 4GB or Ram and a 1.5TB Seagate 7200.12 Model#9JU138-302. [...]
The World is Ending: Mark Zuckerberg is Selling Facebook by 2012
Yes, the world is ending, Facebook which has created and broken more history headlines, blogs, articles, stories, records, data and benchmarks, by the youngest Billionaire is being sold to. Mark said recently that “Facebook is the biggest destroyer of his life” and his wish is to sell it. Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth in 2011 is [...]
socializing developreneurs and monetizing with girls who game on cell phones
Increasing numbers show that over the last decade, there has been a significant amount of women who have joined into the gaming industry. However faulty from popular belief, it isn’t in the console gaming industry; both Apple iPhone/iPad and the Android cell phone gaming industry have been growing extensively. There are more women in cell [...]
So does putting your hard drive in the freezer actually work if you want to recover data. Well what happened is in 2010 I bought computer parts, put them together [as I do with all my machines] and off it went. AMD Phenom x4 955 with 4GB or Ram and a 1.5TB Seagate 7200.12 Model#9JU138-302. Now usually, I know a bad hard drive when I can hear one, but this computer wasn’t for me. January 2011, Hard Drive is dead. I looked up the warranty information, and the hard drive can easily be returned, but the data recovery was not part of the warranty. With the data still on the hard drive I was looking for answers.
I found multiple blogs ranting about possible data recovery by putting your hard drive into your freezer? At first I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to take that approach. But I did. After all I still had a perfectly non-working hard drive that was under warranty. What I found (most commonly) was this: If you’ve ever had a hard drive that make a clicking noise, and it simply wouldn’t boot, you know this is a bad sign (*obviously). However there’s some hope; in most cases you can still retrieve your files. Just follow these steps:
#1. First thing you want to do is Remove the hard drive from the computer (*obvious to me since I read you the Model#)
#2. Remove the hard drive, let it cool down, and put it into a sealed plastic bag to avoid condensation (*I used a static bag just in case, and ziplock as my non-condensation making bag)
#3. Put the hard-drive in a freezer
#4. Keep the Hard drive in a freezer overnight (*Best guess 12 hours or so)
#5. Pull the drive out of the freezer and and hook it up quickly.
Does putting your hard drive into the freezer to recover data work? I’ve read that I will have approx 20 minutes to plug the hard drive into my computer and take my files from it. I’m not exactly sure how this works, but I’m guessing it something similar to that YouTube video about magnets and liquid nitrogen. What I’m worried about is the step Step #2 and a crazy amount of condensation. Here’s a picture:
does putting your hard drive in the freezer actually work?
This will probably potentially ruin my hard drive, and void the warranty, but its worth a try? Data is the most important file on there. Rather than spend a few hundred (*$900 USD on data recovery), a Ziplock bag, static bag and a freezer would be ok too. In my case, my hard drive is actually clicking. It has a physical clicking noise, and I’m pretty sure it has to do with the spindle touching the disc (sector); the freezer idea can theoretically work because when in very cold temperature something weird happens with magnets and metal. Other bloggers have suggested that it could do with the heads retracting because of the cold temperature. I’m not so sure about this. I’m kind of hoping trial and error right now. I will update this post and make the missing link to the video on my Youtube Channel for all to see (*nervous).
The world is ending: Mark Zuckerberg is selling Facebook
Yes, the world is ending, Facebook which has created and broken more history headlines, blogs, articles, stories, records, data and benchmarks, by the youngest Billionaire is being sold to. Mark said recently that “Facebook is the biggest destroyer of his life” and his wish is to sell it. Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth in 2011 is 13.5 Billion USD. The self-made 26 year old billionaire wants to call it quits on the Facebook Legacy. My only question is if Facebook is sold, will it turn into a pay site or a highly lucrative ad site? I still don’t understand how Goldman Sachs can look at Facebook as a business valuation of US $50 Billion; but from a business standpoint, “I get it”, stocks, securities and a $1.86 Billion revenue examination? I read the Tech Crunch blog citing that the actual revenues posted for 2010 were lower, but it was hurting the company. I don’t know what the world is going to do when this guy leaves. The company is climbing though, from $700 Million in 2009 to $1.86 Billion by Dec 31 2010. What I find funny is that most of Facebook’s income didn’t come from big corporate advertisers. If you’re nerd like me, you read PcMag.com and in a blog post this year in January they contrasted company growth by small and by large companies (*large being coca-cola) (*small being small). I don’t want to drift off topic here, but its all coming to an end. Seriously. in 2009 50% of Facebook’s earning came from smaller marketers (*by small I mean companies or people who didn’t use an ad agency). Accounting for 1/2 of the companies ad sales; in 2010 $1.12 Billion (*60%) came from smaller company advertisers. I’m also assuming at this point that since most smaller affiliate based companies were “cut-off” from Google (*or Google Slapped), they shifted gears and started to market $500/d on Facebook ads. Ironically (*at least to me) Google is the 5th ranked advertiser on Facebook. LOL. I think its ironic considering that there’s a rivalry force (*ref. Michael Porter) in the industry among them. Do you remember when Google blocked users from importing contacts into Facebook from Gmail? Facebook in return removed all tags, content relating to the Google contact import from the “Find your friends” feature (*totally off topic here). You don’t just shut down a multi-billion dollar company without recourse. I think people have taken this March madness issue too strongly.
From a multi-disciplinary point of view, there is no way Facebook is going to shut down. If it did, it probably would be the end of the world (*ref. Mayan Calendar); and then someone would fill the void. I did manage to find this false truth (*quote) from Zuckerberg making the accusations seem more serious “I don’t care about the money, I just want my old life back”. Mark can do whatever he wants, but shutting down a social country (*not happening) – negatory.
Silly little rumor. Think about this. Would Facebook decide to shut down the firm after receiving $450 million from Goldman Sachs and $50 Million from Russian firm Digital Sky Tech on a valuation of $50 Billion (*I wonder, is social media getting better spreading UFO stories or are people on the Internet getting surprisingly dumber).
