Well friday my internal hard disk drive crashed, not just any HDD but a 500gb wich holds all my photos, work from school (aftereffects and photoshop, 1000's of labourhours), etc...
I was truly gutted as it would only spin for about 10 seconds and then nothing. Bios wouldn't see it and offcourse windows neither.
Lost hope as i tried many things, keeping it upside down, dropping it on the floor(yes they actually adviced me that) and many things you shouldn't actually do with a hdd if you are sane in your head.
Last resort: putting the hdd in the freezer?? Read this on a couple of forums and there were many disputes about this solution. I thought why not, it's gone anyways so i wrapped it up in some plastic and put it in the freezer.
2 hours later i took it out and with a lot of doubt and even less hope put it back in my computer. This thing was even slightly wet from condensation so i was afraid for a short-circuit to happen. Was i surprised when in my bios i found the HDD and in windows too ! But i read this was only going to last for minutes lets say max half an hour. So i quickly started copying the most important stuff to my external HDD.
After 20 minutes the HDD didn't respond anymore and after restarting the computer again it was gone like before, i couldn't safe everything but am happy with what i got.
So just for you guys out there who had/have the same problem(you can do it with a HDD that's been dead for years) give this a go it worked for me.
Btw this was the first and last time i would buy a Western Digital HDD, allways used Maxtor and never had a problem and this one gave up after 1,5 years.