[Coco] Need to know if I'm in safe waters here

[Frank Pittel]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 08:46:40AM +0100, Manny wrote:
> Hex Star wrote:
> >On 8/2/07, Briza <bpa65117 at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> >>
> >>So what ever happened to this? :)
> >>
> >>What has happened is that I had a major Pc crash and my archive is sitting
> >>on the crashed drive. Only just got my Pc up and running again. I had a
> >>faulty IDE cable which caused this. replaced that. But no so sure I can
> >>access the crashed drive.
> >>
> >>I'll soon let other coconuts know If I'm successful.
> >
> >Ugh that sucks :(. Is the problem the drive isn't spinning? If so, you can
> >freeze the drive in your freezer, thaw it and you may be lucky enough to 
> >get
> >it spinning again temporarily ...
> 
> Briza, DO NOT FREEZE YOUR DRIVE! I researched this about a year or so 
> ago and it can cause (or lead to) all sort of other troubles that will 
> definitely thrash your data, not to mention the hardware in the drive.

I thought that the problem was a bad ide cable. Freezing the drive
won't help with that.