waterlogged hard drive recovery

[William Ward gmail]

I would expect the drive mechanism is watertight, but the circuitry on
the outside may be ruined.  So maybe by getting another drive of the
exact same model and switching the circuitboards, one could get one to
work?  Seems logical to me at least but I know nothing of the data
recovery business.

On 11/18/05, basem moussa <basem at bingojones.net> wrote:
> I've got a friend working for a national nonprofit with a branch in
> New Orleans.  She posed the following question.  Anyone ever recover
> data from waterlogged drives?
>
> > Our New Orleans Organizer was able to do some more digging in the
> > office now
> > that the live power lines have been cleared.  She called today and was
> > wondering if there's any possibility of getting data out of completely
> > water-logged computers.  Any ideas? There are people hawking all
> > sorts of
> > shit down there, including lots that are advertising the ability to
> > recover
> > data from flooded computers -- but it seems like that's gotta be a
> > scam.
> > What do you all think?
>
>
> basem
>


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