[mythtv-users] failing hard drive - advice on recovering specific recordings - mythlink perhaps

Roger Heflin rogerheflin at gmail.com
Sat Jun 28 17:07:16 UTC 2014


The freezer trick is for drives that don't/won't spin up.

The freezer trick does nothing for hard disks that are generating bad sectors.

On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 12:01 PM, jacek burghardt
<jaceksburghardt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> SO you are saying you have limited technical skill? I have no idea if you
> ever had physic classes but cold metal contracts and hot metal expands. I
> have no idea how old the hard drive in question is and what type of bearings
> it has. If it has old type of bearing cooling by freezing it will allow to
> work for an extended time.
>
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