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by djsumdog 2360 days ago
I have successfully used the freezer trick a few times to recover a hard drive. It did work in those instances and I documented it here:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/freezing-a-hard-drive/

If you can, leave the hard drive in the freezer while you access it. Only works for old spinny hard drives of course.