There are many, many weird and wonderful things on the internet…
In data recovery land, one of the weirdest data recovery ideas is to put a faulty hard drive in a freezer for several hours, in the belief that when the drive is later removed, access to the data is temporarily restored and the data can be retrieved.
This story is exactly that – a story. Putting a faulty hard drive in a freezer will not make the fault go away, or allow you to recover the data.
The internet is full of stories on forums from people who have got faulty hard drives and want to recover their data, and someone will usually reply recommending the hard drive should be put in a freezer and justify this by saying they had a friend of a friend who tried it and it worked.
An internet search about freezing hard drives to recover data brings back lots of hits with lots of explanations as to why this technique works. One of the reasons I found was:
“By freezing the hard drive, you’re hopefully shrinking the platters enough that they’re no longer rubbing up against the head”
This is utter rubbish. Hard drives are very complex pieces of equipment. If you value the data that is on a faulty hard drive please don’t put it in the freezer.
Get the hard drive looked at professionally.