Happily I have successfully recovered the last bits of un-backed up data from my crashed HD. It was a an early SATA drive from a 4 1/2 year old Dell Dimension 8300.
About a month ago (just before the move), the disk crashed with a horrid buzzing noise. Attempts to reboot just produced an annoying click of death. To salvage the disk, I put it in the freezer for 2 hours. I pulled it out, plugged it into a SATA to USB adapter and it mounted right away. I was able to copy off my old home dir and 2 days of photos.
I’ll add it to the pile of disks to do something artsy with some day.
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