No real point TBH. Everything on it is either backed up, located on another PC or is just plain unimportant. The only real pain is having to get a new one.
It works in theory, but no one has ever done it successfully.
I have. Got about 20 minutes of life from my dying Seagate after leaving it in the freezer overnight. Before that it wouldn’t even get past the boot screen.
Well, your the first.
In theory, the idea is that the cold is supposed to shrink the metal in the arm of the reader and make it release from the disk (that’s what the click of death is, the reader is stuck to the disk, because the HDD was disconnected from power without the reader being reset), but it rarely happens because the only reason the reader doesn’t touch the disk normally is because of the pocket of air around the disk, due from it spinning so fast.
Possible overheat?
HDD’s don’t overheat.
they do.
Not in the temperatures that it was running at.
you kidding me, i had few hdds over heat on me and die evntually, one of them was saegate barracuda 60gb, it was so hot you could burn yourself just by touchghing it, also my new one seems to over heat every feq days running non stop and stops responding, but im too cheap to buy a any cooler or a fan for it. I will just let it die when its time comes and buy a bigger one, thats how life goes on ;]
my HDDs are always at 34°C.
IF your HDD’s overheat from normal operation then something is wrong with your computer, computer’s ventilation or you’re in a room that’s at like 60 degrees celcius.
If it’s caught in a house fire, yes, they over heat.
But in a normal PC in normal conditions, ie, not on fire.
A HDD is a spinning disk with a reader moving back and forward, even with EXTREME amounts of transfers they don’t overheat.
It’s just not how they work.
Instead of having to waste time taking out the hard drive and testing it to see if its dead or not, just use Pc Doctor. If you dont have it, download it. When you start it up go to “test hard drive” and do a full scan on the hard drive. If anything in the test fails then you certainly need to get a new hard drive.
and how to test it with this program, if he can’t boot his system?
and if the computer doesn’t even detect the hard drive, I doubt PC Doctor will 
LMAO @ myself, i forgot about that. I presume he can still use safe mode
You presume wrong. How could he use safe mode, if the computer thinks there is no HDD present?
Epic fail.
^ This.
Want to explain the server at work beeping today because the hard drive was overheating?
I was there with my boss, asked him what the beeping was, he checked it out, and said that the hard drive was overheating. So, hard drives overheat, and you’re wrong.
Well movement creates friction, and friction creates heat, no?