waterlogged hard drive recovery

Fri Nov 18 15:45:33 PST 2005

Plug the string "disk drive data recovery" into google. There are a lot
of firms doing this. The internals of the HDA are fairly well protected,
and it is likely that they will be able to recover information from
waterlogged drives, even when the drive control circuits are toast. It
is not likely to be very cheap, however.

-jimk

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-baylisa at baylisa.org [mailto:owner-baylisa at baylisa.org] On
Behalf Of basem moussa
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 2:56 PM
To: baylisa at baylisa.org
Subject: waterlogged hard drive recovery

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