Recovering data from a failed hard drive
There’s not much worse than realizing that you just lost months and months of work. We keep things backed up on a fairly tight schedule but it still got to our nerves when the hard drive went bad a few weeks ago. The silence between each click of a stuck hard drive spindle seems to last forever when it’s your data at risk. Our experience is yet another testimony that hard drives DO fail. Backup early and often.
Luckily for us we didn’t have to lose anything. A great tip that worked for us was to leave the hard drive in a zip lock back in the fridge over night. The next day we plugged it in and spun it up. Everything worked long enough for us to recover all of our most recent projects. What would we do without refrigerators?