Replacing an old hard drive

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Originally Posted by sea-man

Try putting it in a sealed waterproof bag in the fridge overnight, then try to copy all the data over the next day.

Please do not do that. Rapid changes in environmental conditions will hurt or kill it. Hard disks need time to adjust to the environment (temperature). That's why you should not turn on a drive immediately if it was stored outside during winter (e.g. delivery truck).

And I fully support bowlinggreen's statement. Could not have said it better.

Originally Posted by bowlinggreen

Given that you have spent dozens or hundreds of hours downloading and organizing your collection, balancing that extra $50 against the wailing and hairpulling that you will be suffering through if your backup drive goes clonk and all of your images are lost is kind of a no-brainer.