[SpamCop-Geeks] Re: Has anyone ever taken the Maxtor 5000DV apart?

[Sylvesterthekat]

"Frog Prince" <me at privacy.net> wrote in message
news:e5ndvr$5lm$1 at news.spamcop.net...
 > I have a bunch of old Maxtor's here about.  The last one I recovered I
put
> it in a zip lock bag, froze it for a week and was about to recover the
data
> in one last gasp.  One the HDD warmed up it was all over but I did get the
> data.

why did that work, do you know? how much data did you get off it? this has
about 150GB of stuff on it