 It is now 10.03. We are here in my kitchen because we are about to undertake an experiment which I have actually never had the need to attempt before because I do usually have all of my data backed up in two separate places. So this is a Seagate Free Agent Go Flex. It's the one I unboxed a while back. This is a one terabyte drive and what I normally use it for is a Steam Drive. I just run it off USB 3 or PowerD SATA depending what's on my test bench and then I keep all my Steam games on it and I run Steam right off this drive so that I don't have to worry about reinstalling it and copying files around all the time. So that's fine. That's all fine and good because I keep a backup of it on my home server with all the Steam games. So that's done. That's taken care of. What I didn't have backed up when this drive decided to die on me was a bunch of footage that I had decided to move from my work PC to home so I could archive it on my home server. So I have about a hundred gigs of video files on here that I would really like to get off. So what happened is the drive died on me and my cat is in the garbage. Please don't. Thank you. Hey, go on. Okay, so my drive decided to die on me and I would really like to get that footage. It's not essential, but it would be great to have. So we are going to be Hey, go on. We're going to be doing a guide for resurrecting a dead drive. So the first thing is I'm going to unplug the interface cable from it. I'm going to put it inside an anti-static bag. This part is not actually necessary, but it's not bad as a due diligence thing to do. So this particular drive, the Ziploc freezer bag by the way, this particular drive, the problem appears to be that it's not spinning. Once it's got power, I can hear it making little noises inside, but the disk does not spin. If the drive spins, it is quite unlikely that this method will work. So this drive doesn't spin, so we are going to try the freezer method. I'm going to freeze it for a couple hours. So it's 10 o'clock now. I'm going to come back around midnight and then I'm going to attempt to power it up and read the data off it. This can sometimes recover drives for 20 to 30 minutes, but other times it does not work. So I would love to be able to pull my data off and I will let you guys know how this goes. Give me a moment here. Okay. I'm just going to put that in my freezer there. I'm just trying to find a good place to put it. I'll put it here on the meat. No, I'm not going to put it on the meat. I'm going to put it with the frozen peas. So hopefully it will cool down a little faster. I'm going to put the corn here. There we go. Packed in there somewhat. And I will be back in two hours and we'll attempt to get some data off my drive. Okay guys, time for the acid test. It's well, you can't really see that, but it's one o'clock in the morning and I'm pretty tired, but I figure an extra hour is probably not going to hurt my chances here. The drive feels quite cold. Just in the kitchen right now. I'm going to grab my interface cable and head back upstairs. All right. Close that. Heading up the stairs. Probably going to find a cat or two on the way. There's one. Ah. There's another one. Looking at the mouse aquarium. Okay. So what we're going to do is we're going to get on this computer here. At some point my camera will decide to focus. We're going to open up this drive. Take out the Ziploc bag. I'm just going to leave it in the anti-static bag. I mean if there's anything we can do to lessen the likelihood of condensation forming on the drive, it's probably a good thing. I'm going to go ahead and plug that interface cable in. Okay. Whoops. Going around to the side of the computer here. I'm going to plug that into USB 3 in order to enable as high a possible transmission speed here. And let's see if it gets detected. So, I'm going to go ahead and plug that in. So I haven't pre-tested this or anything. I have no idea if this is going to work. Free agent? No way. Oh no, that's... Aw man. I got my hopes up, but that's the restored one from my home server. So... It looks like it's not detected. Well, that's a real disappointment. Alright, well thanks for checking out this inquisitive episode of Linus Tech Tips. Don't forget to subscribe for more unboxing reviews and other computer videos. One last update. The drive now appears to be detected. I pulled it out of the GoFlex housing and it's now just a bare drive. It's a 1 terabyte free play as you can see. It's a thick 2.5 inch drive. However, if I go to the properties of the drive and look for any volumes, it would appear that there are none. So, let's hope.