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CBL Pictures: Submerged


Aug 24, 09:45 AM

wet water-submerged hard drive NAS device headed to recovery at CBL Data Recovery You wouldn’t expect this situation to come up, but then again, most (many?) data loss disasters aren’t expected. We see natural disasters involving tornadoes, fires, earthquakes, heavy storms and the resulting water-damaged hard drives, burnt computers, and power-outage crashed hard disks….. but it’s the odd ones that come along every so often that get us.

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CBL Pictures: Pieces of You


Apr 16, 10:10 AM

When we got this drive by regular mail with little padding we were a little worried. Being able to hear pieces moving around freely within the hard drive is never a good sign.

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CBL Pictures: iPhone teardown for recovery


Apr 9, 02:05 PM

Apple announcements about iPhones and OS 4.0 on the brain?

iPhone 3GS teardown for recovery

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How DIY Can Lead to the Cleanroom


Apr 7, 09:49 AM

Home users have become quite computer savvy when it comes to fixing minor problems. More often than not we are finding less logical/software problems making their way to our locations. Even after fiddling with their hard drive and taking it to a local computer technician, problems are often still not solved. That’s when CBL gets the call.

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