Once upon a time, my little 10 GB drive in my webserver failed and of course I had no backup, teaching me to immediately set up an automatic backup job afterwards.

Anyhow, this drive refused to start and as a last-ditch effort I put it in a plastic bag and put it in the freezer overnight, since I had heard somewhere that it might work and I really didn't have any other options.

The next day I take it out, immediately plug it in outside the case and lo and behold, the drive works long enough for me to copy my data off it.

Have you ever had a similar experience with this method?