Now I know why they're called "dead"lines

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mrWr0ng

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Because as soon as you get one, that's when all your equipment dies :(

RIP my external HDD and praying my powerbook (on its last legs) can deliver one more project. Thankfully this will pay me enough to replace them but oh man I would have been much happier if it went two weeks or so longer
 
Did you try freezing your hard drive? I recovered all my data with that trick. Zip up your hard drive inside 2 ziploc bags and shove it in the freezer for a couple of hours.
 
Absolutely. Took me about 10 cycles of freezing and refreezing, but I got back every last byte of a 500 gig drive. A very common drive failure is when the read arm starts crashing into the platters and I guess freezing it makes the metal contract back into place. Once it heats up again it will crash again and fail, so you have to re-freeze. If your drive starts booting up and then you hear a CLUNK - CLUNK, and then failure, this trick should work. Just watch out for condensation. Some people recommend wrapping the drive in paper towels as well, but I skipped that because I like to live dangerously.
 
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I've been able to recover the most important data (related to this project) by just letting it rest. Freezing would be the next step, but the problem is I just don't have room for it, I don't have anywhere to put it. But it'll let me finish, which is all I care about.
 
Freezing... wow...

I honestly would have never though. But it won't make anything crack or get damaged in any way?
 
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