waterlogged hard drive recovery

Fri Nov 18 18:24:08 PST 2005

On 11/18/05, John Costello <cos at indeterminate.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, William Ward gmail wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Mr. Ward's approach is reasonable if you are comfortable taking apart har=
d
> drives.  I'm not comfortable with that level of mucking about, unless it
> is extremely important data and I'm paying, but that's my opinion.

I wasn't advocating a DIY approach, just describing a way that might
be used by such a service to fix the thing.  DIY is a possibility but
you know how firmware versions and chipsets are always changing around
these days in wifi devices without telling us; I expect the same is
true of HDD's.  But maybe not.  YMMV naturally.

--Bill.