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So that whole “freeze a dead hard drive to bring it back to life” trick? It works. Or at least it works until the drive warms up, which in my experience, is after about two minutes.

The wonderful Target Drive Mode built into Apple’s computers for the last ten years or so means that I have been doing the following every 12 hours:

Take dead Macbook hard drive out of freezer Put drive into my Macbook Turn Macbook on, connected to Grapefruit Gal’s Macbook COPY EVERYTHING AS FAST AS YOU CAN Loathe the inevitable clicking sound Clicking sound arrives Turn my Macbook off, pull hard drive, place back into freezer

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    This page contains a single entry by tim published on March 1, 2009 11:46 PM.

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