Put Your Harddrive in the Freezer ?

I have a 6 months old external LaCie Porsche drive that won't mount. I've tried Disk Utility / Warrior without luck.
I've heard some rumors about putting drives in the freezer for 24 hours, then miraculously starting them up and getting the data off of them before they 'unfreeze' and stop working.
Any success with this ? If i try this am I harming any future potential for data recovery ?
Any help, alterate ideas, experience with freezers very welcome !
mary mary

OK, that is very important information.
Neither of those programs can fix a FAT32 drive, as far as I know. But there are programs that can.
Can you give us some history behind the appearance of this failure? What preceded it?
What data is on it, and what computer did it come from?
I'd also add that the freezer fix is totally inappropriate at this stage. Normal recovery techniques with different tools still look possible. Perhaps DataRescueII, or by hooking up to a PC with recovery software. (The PC route should only be attempted by someone experienced with data recovery.)
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/datarescueii.html

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