Some sad news to share here (not sure anyone will care but, just in case, I'll talk about what happened).
My hard drive suddenly failed today (I'm guessing it has something to do with our sudden heat wave, but I'm not sure). Hadn't done a data backup of it in the past couple of years, but was planning to do one very soon. Sure enough, the dang thing crashes right before I was going to back it up.
It's one of those old hard drives, from the mid 2000s. It's making buzzing noises every time I attempt to boot my PC with it hooked up to the PC. Thankfully it's a slave drive and not the main HD with the operating system on it. Still, it had important files for a project I was working on, and it would set me back quite a bit if I was not able to retrieve it.
Any advice on what I could do to retrieve the data on it, aside from spending hundreds or thousands to have a 3rd party retrieve the data from it? I've heard something about cooling down the HD by refrigeration, would you recommend that?
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