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The problem: Your PC's hard drive crashes and can't be read.
The fix: Before you toss the hard drive out, give this method a shot and at least try and save some of your files. Place the hard drive in a zip lock bag (to prevent moisture from accumulating), put it in your freezer, and leave it overnight. This may help to free up binding parts. As hard drives age, or are moved around, some internal pieces can become dislodged and unaligned, making the drive unreadable. Freezing the hard drive will force the pieces to contract and, hopefully, realign long enough to salvage your data. Another PC tip, courtesy of one of our learned readers, is, if your PC overheats, to try vacuuming the inside.
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Subscribe to commentsALMar 14th 2009 6:44PM
I highly recommend against vacuming out your PC. A vacum creates statice electricity which can fry sensitive electronic circuits.
LimoBarbieMar 27th 2009 11:41AM
If your computer is about 18 months or more old, and it is overheating, chances are that your air intake is clogged with dust and lint (and cat fur if you have pets) and the dust and fur can be removed in one piece like pulling out dryer lint. I had this problem since I have 6 cats and when my laptop starts overheating, I take it to the computer shop and they take it apart and put the clog out. It takes about 15 minutes to unscrew the parts and pull the lint clog out and the puter is like new. Make sure you get an estimate of how much this will cost as 1 computer shop tried to charge me $120 to remove a lint chunk that I watched a previous service tech remove in 7 minutes. I screamed and bitched so much about being overcharged that they decided that $40 would be sufficient--still a lot for 15 minutes of work but better than a new computer!