Revive your hard drive...

luminou2, one of our forum members, was unlucky enough to have his recently purchased hard drive die on him, making the typical "clunk clunk clunk" sound. Not having any luck reviving it with the various wizard batches (including the freezer tip), he had to use the heavy stuff with the brand new (and extremely trendy) electric shaver method. :-)
A picture of the HD in the freezer. Note the use of a freezer bag, to avoid humidity ruining everything. The pack of frozen bacon bits ("lardons fumés") is just here to add some flavor ;-)

After that, you place the reluctant hard drive on top of a vibrating electric shaver.


Luminou2 could then finally backup most of his data during the long 16 hours vibrating transfer session. Looks like the vibrations helped giving the drive a good head, erm I mean ...spin. ;-)
[note from kurisu] No words on if this trick works with other vibrating ...devices :D