waterlogged hard drive recovery

Fri Nov 18 14:56:24 PST 2005

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