[itdiscuss] Gummy Hard Drive

Wed Sep 16 10:57:16 EDT 2009

Distilled water and then dropping it in a bag of rice might work.  I
recently had a user spill a glass of water on her BlackBerry and it
stopped working; I told her to put the BB in a bag of rice for a while
and then give it a try.  She was back in business in 15 minutes.  Rice
sucks moisture out of things like this really well; might work for a
hard drive too.

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	From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org
[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Dayron Daugherty
	Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:31 AM
	To: IT Discussion Forum
	Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] Gummy Hard Drive

	My thought would be if you don't open it up some of the residue
may remain in the housing and would also hinder you ability to see if it
was fully dry. Given it's current condition being a failed drive, I'd
not hesitate to open it up if data recovery service turns out not to be
an option. 

	From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org
[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of blloyd at buskercom.com
	Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:10 AM
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	Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] Gummy Hard Drive

	I wonder what would happen if I socked it in distilled water and
then let it dry out?  What do you think about that?  That way I wouldn't
be opening it up and it might free up the mechanical parts.

	Bill Lloyd 
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	From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org
[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Dayron Daugherty
	Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:02 AM
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	Well if you did nothing it's dead. So trying it won't hurt, but
keep in mind harddrive recovery service providers usually have a "clean
room" they operate in that is relatively free of airborne, microscopic
dust particles. 

	I've repaired laptop motherboards with ultra sugary coffee
spilled on them by running the motherboard under hot running water. Then
after ample dry time put the laptop back together and it worked.
Obviously a hardrive is a very different animal, but as said...if it's
dead anyway... may as well try cleaning it if you aren't going to send
it off for drive recovery. 

	I had an old 8GB drive (many many moons ago) that stopped
spinning up...no power to it at all. I had another drive of the exact
model that didn't have any data on it that I needed. I removed the main
circuit board from the known good drive and replaced it on the bad drive
and it worked. It obviously wasn't done in s ac clean room. 

	If you can get another drive of the exact same model you could
try opening the gummed up drive, and cleaning the parts related to the
platters themselves and attempt moving just the data related parts to
the other working drive. I've never done that, but have read a success
story or 2 about it in the past. 

	From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org
[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of blloyd at buskercom.com
	Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 9:26 AM
	To: discuss at itdiscuss.org
	Subject: [itdiscuss] Gummy Hard Drive

	A pastor for the church that my boss is a member of has recently
spilt sweet tea into his laptop, which gummed up the inside of his hard
drive.  It is so gummed up that it will not spin up to recover data.
Now I am willing to open up the HD case and try to remove the gum and
put it back together long enough to get data off.  We would send it off
to be recovered, but it costs too much money for him to afford.  

	What I'm wondering is what you all think about this?  Any
similar situations?

	Bill Lloyd 
	IT Manager

	2567 Athens Hwy.
	Gainesville, GA 30507
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	Fax:     770-417-1747
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