More than a decade ago I had a server fail with an unreadable hard drive. I
put the drive in a freezer overnight and the next day it was readable just
long enough for me to make a clone. (Wrap it in a towel or something to
insulate it for reading.) The clone had a few errors but for the most part =
I
had everything I needed.

Allen

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> At One Laptop per Child we had some success using a domestic freezer
> to remove the last of the data on failed disks.
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> 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.
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> http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
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