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Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
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Originally Posted by billybek
This does work!
You can keep the drive cool by running canned air (it is really a refrigerant, currently R-112) over it while it is running.
My wife's hard drive crashed last month and a friend of mine took the drive out and was able to connect with some cabling tools to his computer and copied the drive.
It was much easier to keep canned air running over the drive while it was lying on the table connected externally to his computer.
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You can get these external drive cables at any good computer store for around $10-15. I use them all the time and they work especially good with situations like this.
No need for the refrigerant, get a frozen ice pack, put it in a plastic bag to keep it from seeping on the drive and put it on top of the drive while on a desk. Keeps it frosty and spinning while you are copying the data.
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