[Cialug] Drive recovery

[David Champion]

Hard drives are not really sealed watertight. Some of them have a small
vent hole with some sort of filter or membrane behind it, will be labelled
"Do not block this hole" or something like that.

I've fixed a couple of laptops that had water in them - I think in both
cases I had to replace the motherboard, but the RAM and HD and screen were
OK.

-dc

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 5:25 PM, John Moder <jmoder at crispsolutions.net>
wrote:

> I am a Gillware Partner, give me a call, I can get you the information for
> them.  We can send it in, they will quote a price based on if they can get
> the data off.  If no data, they don’t bill me…
>
> John
> (515) 423-0160
>
>
> > On Nov 9, 2017, at 17:13, Nick Copeland <nick.s.copeland at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > http://filesaversdatarecovery.com/locations/iowa/data-
> recovery-in-des-moines-ia.html
> > I've never tried these folks but I've had them in mind for a while in the
> > event that I need the service.
> >
> > Does your friend have SSD or HDD?
> >
> > Mechanical-Magnetic hard drives are air-tight, having recovered data off
> > drives submerged in 6 inches of water for hours, so after allowing the
> > moisture to go away, try it and if it doesn't work replace the logic
> board
> > and that might get it to a working state for recovery. Has anyone checked
> > to see if it even got wet? It's usually on the other side of the main
> > board.
> >
> > I think Solid State Drives are much more susceptible to data loss due to
> > water damage and SSD placement varies from model to model For example:
> > Apple products use bare SSD boards parallel to the main board and others
> > may use encased 2.5 inch SSDs under the mainboard.
> >
> > nsc
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 4:53 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Just received a call from a friend whose laptop got wet; obviously, he
> has
> >> no current backups. Instead of trying anything else, I would like to
> >> recommend a clean-room facility to prevent any data loss.
> >>
> >> Anyone with a recommdation?
> >>
> >>        Lee
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