Freezer trick

[btcomm]

Ok so I have this drive and it's bad, smart failure can't copy data. The drive does appear to spin up.

Would the freezer trick help or is that only if the drive will not spin up?

Whenever I try any data recovery program to access the drive, it locks up and then when I try disk management it just sits there at connection to disk management and that will not load either.

Also, this drive did have a file system although there were files that would not copy.

Windows started to run a checkdsk on it during bootup without my consent and now the drive does not show the file system.

I know file recovery programs can get back data even in this case but is there a program that can get the file system back fairly quickly? If the freezer trick does work I heard it only works so long and I would love to be able to get the data back, it's just some documents so it's not the amount of data that should take so long.

[Train]

I have had it work three times.
Do NOT forget to put it ins a Zip lock bag either.

The 6 inch drop has work a time or two.

200 ways to revive a hard drive. Note: this is a hot pdf link.
http://www.hddrecovery.com.au/downloads/200ways.pdf

[SuperSparks]

These are all excellent freeware file recovery programs. Recuva is the one that I like best, it's very quick and easy to use:

PC Inspector

Restoration

TestDisk

Recuva