| Flood & Fire Damaged Hard Drives |
What to do if your hard drive is in a flood or fire....First, DO NOT do any of the following. You risk taking a potentially recoverable hard drive and rendering it permanently unrecoverable:
If your drive is liquid damaged: DO place the drive in a plastic bag. If the drive was submerged, do not let the drive dry out.
A fire or flood damaged hard drive is by definition a physical hard drive failure. The only way to assure the highest probability of recovery is to stop using the hard drive and have a qualified Data Recovery Engineer disassemble your hard drive in a cleanroom, resolve the flood or fire damage, then perform recovery. No software utilities exist which can effectively recover data from a drive that sustained flood or fire damage. If you know or suspect your hard drive has been damaged by fire or liquid, stop using it immediately. In the event of liquid damage, minutes may mean the difference between recovery and data loss. By not drying a drive out, you will minimize the risk or deposits forming on the drive platters or heads. Once the drive is in the cleanroom, the drive can be opened and restored to sterile condition before recovery is performed. With over a decade of physical hard drive recovery experience, Hard Drive 911 Data Recovery is your first choice for physical data recovery. Contact us now at (888) 470-3282 (DATA) or email us at Info@HardDrive911DataRecovery.com |
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