Not to take this offtopic... posting this out of curiousity.
But when disks become unreadable, I have heard that people have frozen them... and then miraculously they drive worked thereafter! I didn't believe it at first but apparently it has truely worked. Anyone here ever tried that? If so, under what circumstances was it frozen, and how did freezing it solve the problem?

heheh BTW, don't try this if this is your bosses disk/data... I'd hate to hear that you hosed the drive because you heard freezing it might fix it.