it is now 10:03 we are here in my kitchen because we are about to
undertake an experiment which uh I have
actually never had the need to attempt
before cuz I do usually have all of my data backed up in two separate places so
this is a Seagate free agent glex it's the one I unboxed a while back this is a
1 tbte drive and um what I normally use
it for is as a steam Drive I just run off USB 3 or power D SATA depending
what's on my test bench and then I keep all my Steam games on it and I run Steam
right off this drive so that I don't have to worry about reinstalling it and copying files around all all the time so
that's fine that's all fine and good cuz I keep a backup of it on my home server
with all the Steam games so that's that's done that's taken care of what I
didn't have backed up when this drive decided to die on me was a bunch of
footage that I had decided to move from my work PC to home so I could archive it
on my Home Server so I have about 100 gigs of video files on here that I would
really like to get off so what happened is the drive died on me and
um my cat is in the garbage please don't
thank you hey go on okay so my drive decided to die on me
and I would really like to get that footage it's not essential but it would
be great to have so we are going to
be hey go
on we're going to be doing a guide for resur directing a dead drive so the
first thing is I'm going to unplug the interface cable from it I'm going to put
it inside an anti-static bag this part is not actually like necessary but it's
not bad as a due diligence thing to do so this particular Drive Ziploc freezer
bag by the way this particular Drive the problem appears to be that it's not
spinning once it's got power I can hear it making little noises inside but the
disc does not spin if the drive spins it is quite unlikely that this method will
work so this drive doesn't spin so we are going to try the freezer method I'm
going to freeze it for a couple hours so it's 10:00 now I'm going to come back
around midnight and then I'm going to attempt to Power It Up and read the data
off it this can sometimes recover drives for 20 to 30 minutes but other times it
does not work so I would love to be able to pull my data off and I will let you
guys know how this goes just give me a moment
here okay
I'm just going to put that in my freezer
there let's find a good place to put it
maybe I'll put it here on the meat no I'm not going to put it on the
meat I'm going to put it with the frozen peas so hopefully it'll uh cool down a
little faster let get the corn
here there we go packed in there
somewhat and I will be back in 2 hours
and we'll attempt to to get some data off my drive okay guys time for the acid
test it's uh well you can't really see
that but it's 1:00 in the morning and
I'm pretty tired but I figure an extra hour it's probably not
going to hurt my chances here the drive feels quite cold just in the kitchen
right now I'm going to grab my interface cable head back upstairs
all right close that heading up the
stairs probably going to find a cat or two on my way there's one
aha there's another one looking at the
uh the mouse aquarium okay so what we're going to do
is we're going to get on this computer here and at some point my camera will
decide to f Focus we're going to open up
this drive take a of the zip lock
bag I'm just going to leave it in the anti-static bag I mean if there's
anything we can do to uh lessen the
likelihood of condensation forming on the drive probably a good
thing I'm going to go ahead and plug
that interface cable in
okay oops let's come around to the side
of the computer here I'm going to plug that into USB 3 in order to enable as
high a possible transmission speed here
and let's see if it gets
detected so I haven't pretested this or anything I have no idea if this is going
to
work free agent no way oh no that's a
man I got my hopes up but that's the restored one from my uh Home
Server
so it looks like it's not
detected well that's a real disappoint appointment all right well thanks for
checking out this inquisitive episode of lonus tech tips don't forget to
subscribe for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos one last update the drive now
appears to be detected I pulled it out of the uh glex housing and it's now just
a a bare drive it's a one tab free play
as you can see it's a thick 2 and 1/2 in Drive
however if I go to the properties of the drive
and look for any volumes it would appear that there are none
so it's hooped