Efff!

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My Windozzzz... Hard drive has taken a dump and has now gone on to the afterlife!
Well it was a crapy 80 gig IDE hardrive anyway but now I have no way of playing UT3 or Combatarms!
(this happened yesterday BTW)

Does anybody know how to revive an old hardrive? (I kind of have some files on there that I need)

Also I/my dad is now in the market for a new HDD. Any suggestions?

But there is a good thing out of all this:
A. I know get a better faster HDD
B. I may be able to finally try out W7.

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Ive heard that putting the hdd in a freezer for a while will make it operation again for a few minutes (maybe an hour?).

Here is a little article about it.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2006110111270170#

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Well I'll probably try that I heard that Green did the same thing when his drive took a dump.

Also a little off topic: Ewww mac site. (But good article)

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Oh snap! I didnt even see that...whoops.

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Don't worry the article was good and helpful. Unlike other mac sites.

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Yarp. Be sure to wrap it inside either a antistatic bag (wrap it TIGHT) or a ziplock bag. I did antistatic + normal plastic bag outside just to be sure : 3

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Yeah I was thinking before that I should put it in an antistatic bag in the freezer.

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Well on to the other dilemma: "A new Hard Drive" (more and more do I feel like I'm still in English I)

My dad is deciding between these two HDD:
Seagate Barracuda
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148433

and

Western Digital Caviar black
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284

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what's your sata I (1.5Gb/s), II (3Gb/s), III(6Gb/s)?

and name in order of highest priority price, speed, and space

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Avoid seagate.


I used one for a year and it locked and I lost every bit of data. Freezer Recovery didn't work.

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OLD THREAD IS OLD GUYS

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Watabump.