Black Dog Blog

A tip from some folks on GeekUp. I've just heard of this, am very excited and intend to try it with the hard disk that suffered a head crash just as my backup Maxtor OneTouch II (boo, hiss! Do not buy!) simultaneously died the death.

Freeze (yes, in a freezer) your hard drive to recover data. (It's worth reading some of the comments, too, at least until you get far enough that everyone's repeating what everyone else says.)

It would be so awesome to get the data off that clickity drive! The source files from my little foray into Inform! Old Profusion/Proelium stuff! And even, I think, a few working graphics files… like that brown-on-red cat creature I drew once for Ree. I think the PSD for that was also lost on there.

I used to back up the documents folder (which contained most or all of my important stuff) to a WinZip file on the same partition, then copy that zip to the Maxtor. So even if I only got a few minutes out of the thing, I could at least snag that.

I'll let you know how I get on if I attempt this…