[luau] hard drive recovery practices

[yuser at hi.net]

That's an intersting method.  I have used the physical shock method many 
times in the past.  Start by tapping with your hand and work up to 
multiple blows with the handle of a large screw driver.  It really has 
worked before.  

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Warren Togami wrote:

> > -Vince
> 
> I heard somewhere that when hard drives fail to spin up, if you put it 
> in a freezer for a few hours, take it out and keep it away from air (so 
> condensation wont form on it), the temperature expansion/contraction is 
> sometimes enough to "unstick" it to spin up one more time.  If you 
> manage to get it spinning, quickly copy as much data as possible off of 
> the drive before it dies permanently.  Some other guy suggested the same 
> thing but putting the hard drive into an oven, and using it after it 
> cooled down.
>