Freeze you burnt hard-drive

It works.

I found out that my hard drive failed after returned from vacation. Probably due to the unsuccessful shut-down before I left. The system cannot recognize the hard drive, or when it can recognize it, the hard drive reads very slowly, and then, disappeared.

A quick google gave me stories of people "freeze" the hard drive in the freezer to buy some time back up the important data.

No matter what the mechanism, it works on my hard drive. I got about 10g copy each time I freeze the hard drive. Enough to copy the personal data. I will keep doing this to see how much I can get off it before I send it back for warranty replacement.