Windows 7: Hard Drive Failed, anyway to fix?

I had the good fortune of seeing an early version of this paper. The thing that jumped out at me was the hard drive failure information:

The probability of a failure in the first 5 days of uptime is 1 in 470.
Once you've had one failure, the probability of a second failure is 1 in 3.4.
Once you've had two failures, the probability of a third failure is 1 in 1.9.
Translation: That hard drive failure you experienced? It was no fluke. Once you experience your first hard drive failure, the odds of a second one increase by a factor of over 100.

What's more, that second failure is highly likely (86%) to occur within the next ten days, and almost certainly (99%) within the next thirty.

Conclusion: When you get a hard drive failure, replace the drive immediately.

Yeah WA I have read somewhere recently that that way of dealing with it is possible but apparently you only have one shot at it so make sure you have everything set up ready to roll as soon as you take it out of the freezer.

It also said that it has to be well and truly frozen too not just in for half an hour then try I seem to remember it said preferably overnight. You will need a working machine to hook it up to of course and if you cannot hook it into a desktop board data socket (SATA) and power supply there are those gadgets (I prefer those) that provide power and a USB hook up for data. They are not expensive and are useful for a myriad of different uses.

Of all the myths out there that ostensibly tell computer users how to recover their own data from a damaged hard drive, the most prevalent is probably the "freeze myth," which purports that a hard drive can be restored by putting it into a freezer for several hours and then rebooting it.