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Originally Posted by BFT3K
I used a disk utility program, and got really lucky. It had a corrupted file that needed repair, and it's all good now. Amazing!
No freezer trick needed, but now I know something new for next time. Plus I just ordered a bunch of new backup drives, so I can keep double backups of everything just in case.
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The freezer trick was intended for drives that locked up (usually due to heat)... not to fix corrupted files :P
If your HDD spins up and actually functions, the freezer trick is useless.