It's worse than that it's dead (maybe anyway)

[Folkert Rienstra]

Interessting. If that is right, then the interface electronics has
problems. The interface (cable) is the only place where CRC (cyclic
redundancy check) is used, the surface uses some ECC variant.

There have been reports that drivers/apps still report the ECC errors as
being CRC errors.

Hmm. Still, save what you can now.


I would say the drive is still dying.

Or not.

Dying is not necessarily a linear process.

Or it just is on a bad diet (read power supply/supply of power).

Electronics (like humans and other beings) can
get better before they get even worse and die.

Or a change of diet.

Unlikely. Most disk manufacturers do not even test incoming drives
immediately but ship them off to a place with cheap labour for
diagnostics and repair.

The disk was undetectable, i.e. there is something seriously wrong with it,

Or with it's supply of power.

 

[Sentientv2]

Just found this thread through a google search, and I tried the freezer trick. It actually made my hard drive readable for about 10 minutes. I had left it in there for an hour. I imagine all the of the components could have stood to be a little colder. Anyways, I tried it again for a little less than an hour with less success... I really wasn't able to do anything.

Now I have used my mom's FoodSaver device to pull all of the air out of the packaging I'm wrapping the hard drive with. I had way too much condensation on my hard drive, despite putting it in a freezer bag and pushing as much air as possible out of it. I almost got all of the files out of it.


This it a Western Digital external 120gb hard drive. Best of luck, just wanted to point out that I had tried it(didn't have anything to lose in the process).

-Sentientv2