<div dir="ltr">Quote my brother:<div><br></div><div> "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">I don't think it's a sector issue because its practically impossible for every sector to have become corrupt overnight. Rather, I think the mbr may have got corrupted somehow and needs to be rebuilt but that wud need to wipe the whole thing. Is there a recover utility that could build it leaving what was there before intact?"</span><br> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 April 2010 12:26, Dan Attwood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danattwood@googlemail.com">danattwood@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> I've done the freezer trick before on a failing hard drive and it does work. I found it best to wrap the drive up and give it half an hour in the freezer and then when you take it out balance it circuit board down on a pack of frozen sausages to keep it cooler for longer.<div> <br></div><div>However I don't think this trick will work on bad sectors. It worked for be because one of the chips on the circuit board was failing and overheating, which would then shut the drive down. <br><div class="gmail_quote"> <br></div></div> <br>--<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a><br> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br></div></div>