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I've heard a few stories of folks putting the 'bad' drive in the freezer for awhile. Then they are able to retrieve the data when the drive is cold...I haven't tried this method myself, but I've read about it several times...It might be worth a try....



A friend had a problem with a drive clicking repeatedly and not being recognised. He put it in the freezer for 24hrs+ and it worked easily long enough to copy off all his data.

edit: It was a last resort though, everything else had been tried short of hardware fiddling, eg. swapping controller boards. I believe he was running the drive in an open case and not bolted to the chassis, so overheating was my guess.

Gareth