Comments for TheTechMentor.com https://www.thetechmentor.com Computer Technicians to IT Business Owners, Computer fixes and tools Sun, 18 May 2025 19:57:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.17 Comment on Put Your Hard Drive in the Freezer to Recover Data by Jeff https://www.thetechmentor.com/posts/put-your-hard-drive-in-the-freezer-to-recover-data/#comment-380929 Sun, 18 May 2025 19:57:08 +0000 http://www.caseytech.com/put-your-hard-drive-in-the-freezer-to-recover-data/#comment-380929 In reply to John Carter.

Yes John, it’s only seen as a temporary recovery – just make the drive work long enough to try to recover what is important to you.

Well it’s May, how did your recovery attempt go? (From 2009 to 2025, that is likely to be difficult.)

]]> Comment on Put Your Hard Drive in the Freezer to Recover Data by John Carter https://www.thetechmentor.com/posts/put-your-hard-drive-in-the-freezer-to-recover-data/#comment-369348 Wed, 12 Mar 2025 17:10:10 +0000 http://www.caseytech.com/put-your-hard-drive-in-the-freezer-to-recover-data/#comment-369348 Well it’s 2025. This still works on spindle drives for a temporary (rarely long term) recovery. I used it back in the early 2000s many times while recovering very sensitive corporate data with great success; I am a computer scientist and have been working in the technology sector since the 90s. By the way the freeze hack worked worked for several hours after my overnight freeze of a drive in the early 2000s.

I recommend in one freezer bag with a silica packet, pull air out, seal, then add another freezer bag air removed and sealed. Place in freezer for at least 2 hours.

I’ll update soon, I’m recovering photos from a hard drive that failed in 2009 and again trying this process. wish me luck. 🙂

]]> Comment on How to Backspace on iPad without deleting with this trick by John Street https://www.thetechmentor.com/posts/how-backspace-ipad-without-deleting/#comment-333212 Fri, 05 Jul 2024 21:28:53 +0000 https://www.thetechmentor.com/?p=7123#comment-333212 Or, you could just use the key combo control+D. Mucho simpler.

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]]> Comment on How to Remote Control Computers Using PCHelpWare by Alan https://www.thetechmentor.com/posts/how-remote-control-computers-using-pchelpware/#comment-320795 Sat, 30 Dec 2023 22:16:11 +0000 http://www.thetechmentor.com/posts/how-remote-control-computers-using-pchelpware/#comment-320795 I am still using PCHelpWare.
12 years running and going strong on Windows 10 as well!

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