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Creative Data Loss

Posted by timothy on from the do-it-just-like-not-this dept.

lewiz writes "An interesting article from the BBC about the crazy things people do when they accidentally delete files. Amazingly one guy froze his hard disk in an effort to retrieve files. Real men don't make backups... but, hell, who needs to if you can resurrect them from the dead ;)"

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  1. Re:What's wrong with freezing a drive? by krymsin01 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Nice. I hear the magnetism is good for the disk. Arranges the bits all nice and neat.

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  2. Re:Freezing hard disks by jeremy_dot · · Score: 0, Troll

    All freezing does is slow down the electrons. I've had lots of success with old hard disks (pre-1996) when the electronics was still quite buggy. Seriously, I'm using my old Conner CP-30100 scsi drive on an Amiga right now.

    Another fun instance of frozen hard drives resides at BBSpot.com Labs - Ice