I've heard of it but never tried it. Funny as well because a lad in work has a newish 500GB drive that seems dead. It just clicks and does not show up as a slave drive at all. I might try this myself tomorrow afternoon when he brings it in and leave it overnight.

http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/01/freeze-your-hard-drive-to-recover-data.html

The freezer? lol. what does that do?

Naa about as allan said, if it doesn't work as slave it'll be more than you'll be willing to pay to get it recovered.

An old trick that people swear by but i've never tried is putting it in the freezer then getting it to boot one last time.

[Edited on 28-04-2008 by John]

Like I said plugging it into a spare machine as a second hd and seeing if you can browse any data on it. Doesn't always work but it worth a try. If not then I really only know of specialist data recovery firms that are expensive. John might have a better idea.

Yeah its Dell. HD failed? Would there be any way of recovering it?

If your lucky you might be able to get it working as a secondary drive and recover something if not then your pretty much screwed, unless you pay for an expensive recovery service. :(

DST test, dell i'm assuming?

99% hard drive failed if so.

My girlfriends computer crashed yesterday randomly on her now it wont boot properly, dont think its recognising windows maybe cos the internal hard drive isnt being read properly? I did a diagnostics check on it and the short DST test failed saying the hdd drive cannot be found. What could it be and what can be done? Thanks.