At One Laptop per Child we had some success using a domestic freezer
to remove the last of the data on failed disks.

The freezer didn't have a compatible I/O interface.  ;-) So we only
used it to cool the assembly before restarting the extraction from
where it left off.

http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html

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http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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