Heidi, I would suggest you first determine a value on the data recovery. If it is low, try whatever you like including freezing (although I don't understand how cooling the drive would counteract the fire damage at this point). If the data is critical, contact the manufacture of the drive. There are also independent data recovery experts you could turn to. The service isn't always cheap, but if the data is worth it... My experience comes from a fire damaged computer about 10 years ago. I had a computer survive a fire housed in an enclosure. It was hot enough to melt the solder off the boards. The drive contained financial information slightly more up to date then the most recent backup. I sent the drive off for recovery but the initial analysis of the unit was more costly than the data on the drive. Good Luck - Doug Juergensen Network Technical Services Manager Department of Revenue Douglas.Juergensen@private (503) 947-2055 -----Original Message----- From: Heidi [mailto:mcps@private] Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 8:37 AM To: CRIME Subject: fire damage/data recovery Has anyone had to deal with recovery of data from fire damaged hard drives? Have you tried freezing them? I have heard of this, but one would think the moisture would just add more damage. Any other suggestions? Thank you, Heidi
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