Recovering data from failed Maxtor One Touch II drive

[Matt Patterson]

My knocking it suggestion was as a last resort. A light tap wont damage 
it either way, but I hit mine pretty hard on the cement to make it work, 
and it seemed pretty risky, so I would only do that in a LAST resort.

Matt



Tim Vaughan wrote:

>>Put it in the refrigerator over nite...
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>>It will then work for about an hour the next day..
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>Ok, I sealed the drive up in a plastic bag + loads of tape and then
>put it in a tupperware container in the freezer (to avoid condensation
>problems, if there are any).  I'll see whether it behaves tomorrow
>morning.  If that doesn't work I'll try knocking it on something hard
>and if THAT doesn't work, I'll investigate cheap data recovery.
>
>Thanks for all the suggestions,
>
>Tim
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