Take the hard directly out of the freezer proof bag and put in very quickly to the external firewire case (that is already connected to your Mac).ĥ. Now the following steps have to be very quickly before the hard drive thaws out.Ĥ. Just before the freezing is done boot into your new hard drive OS X and launch /Applications/Utilities/Migration Assistant and get it ready to import you music, network settings, pictures, personal documents. make sure no moisture gets to the drive.ģ. Place in freezer and leave it there around six hours. Put the broken hard drive in the Freezer Proof bad and seal it good.Ģ. Then update it to the current level you can go (using the same username/password that is on you broken hard drive). Now get a new internal hard drive and install a fresh copy of OS X on it.

External firewire external cable/case that you can quickly put a hard drive in, very quickly. Freezer Proof Bag (large enough to hold the drive)Ģ. Now there is a quick trick to try to get data off that broken hard drive (the hard drive repair sites use all the time) is kind of easy but you have to have the right equipment.ġ. Mario even if you can'repair' those tons of problems (regardless what program 'fixes' the errors) it sounds as if the hard drive drove south without you.