Posted on 07/12/2021 6:47:05 AM PDT by bgill
Yep, everyone should have one ready. The job of Linux is to save you from Windows. :)
I bought a refurbished Dell Optiplex PC a few years back works great. Only once it stopped working, and all I did was re-seat the RAM memory boards and that fixed it.
I actually like WIndows-10. Except for the on going updates.
So I stop all automatic updates for a couple of months then do any pending updates in one day. This speeds up the PC.
What's taps--your hardware or your software? Don't confuse the two. I'm still using Windows 7, after an episode like yours.
I have one machine with my very first install of Linux, Mint Cinnamon 18.3. Never updated it once in 5 years now and it is still trouble free.
Inside a conventional (but not Solid State Drives or thumbdrives!) is a motorized platter and a tiny arm with a read/record head on it that moves back and forth reading the contents of the platter.
Sometimes when the drives get old or damaged the platter quits spinning or the little arm gets stuck. When you place it in the freezer sometimes it temporarily unsticks the parts and allows the computer to read the contents of the disk.
It’s a “hail Mary” move but does work on occasion.
No one could make that up... thanks for explaining how freezing makes it work.
I remember one case where somebody seemed to know what they were talking about, they said let startup repair work as long as it wants, even for a few days. And through it all, it may restart several times and repeat the start up repair, looking at something else. He said to not interrupt it at all, just let it chug away.
I’m not an expert, but if you are having problems, and can’t get back into your system easily, maybe you’d have nothing to lose trying it.
What???"
Data recovery and some others tend to disparage this, and it should be a last ditch effort if you do not want to spend the money for professional Data recovery, but others recommend it and attest to it working, and IIRC it worked for me once years ago.
https://www.thetechmentor.com/posts/put-your-hard-drive-in-the-freezer-to-recover-data/
https://www.quora.com/How-effective-is-putting-a-hard-drive-in-the-freezer
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/put-my-dead-hard-drive-in-the-freezer.361942/
https://lifehacker.com/save-a-failed-hard-drive-in-your-freezer-redux-5515337
Put Your Hard Drive in the Freezer to Recover Data
Or… How to Fix a Clicking Hard Drive!
https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=3975399,69
I’m a believer! Thanks for sharing.
Only works in certain cases, but a "cool" if risky recourse. I was told to by the tech support of a PC company do the same thing to a restore CD that could not be read. But stranger things can be put in freezers (like the snake my amateur scientist dad put in a glass jar and placed it in the freezer in order to see if it could be resuscitated, but before this was tested my mom found this frosted glass jar in the freezer and peered inside, only to find said snake looking back)!
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