The hard drive on my old computer died. The way it died, they can't just slave it to another machine to get the data off of it. The only way they MIGHT be able to get the data, I'm told, is to send it across the country to a place that will take it into a clean room, take it apart, and work their magic - and even then, it might not work. They'll charge $1,000 even if they don't recover anything..... Damn. I really want some of that stuff....
Then some guy who is a help desk manager told me they are sometimes successful with getting the data off if they freeze the hard drive first - freeze it, slap it in the computer, then boot up. Am I crazy for being paranoid about trying this?