July 22

Sometimes the effects of a disaster are too much for recovery - hard drives destroyed by fire in Fort McMurray
Hard drives destroyed by fire in Fort McMurray

When we receive fire-damaged hard drives and computers in need of data recovery service, usually they aren’t in terribly bad shape. Sure, the intensity of fire burning computer components causes plastic and metal to melt, twist and deform. But sometimes internal media surfaces are left intact. This allows us to perform careful extraction and rebuilding of platters and electronic components to get data recovered from affected storage devices.

Sometimes the effects of a disaster are too much for recovery - hard drives destroyed by YMMFires
Closer look at hard drive platters destroyed by YMM fires
Sometimes the effects of a disaster are too much for recovery - burned hard drive read/write head destroyed by fire in Fort McMurray/YMM
Burned hard drive read/write head
Sometimes the effects of a disaster are too much for recovery - hard drives destroyed in Fort McMurray/Alberta fires
Shattered and burned hard drive with platters and read/write head

Sometimes the effects of a disaster are too much for recovery. As you can see in these photos, unfortunately wildfires in Fort McMurray, Canada incurred extreme destruction on these drives. Not all data loss situations, especially disastrous ones like this, have happy endings. But data is resilient, so when you think all is lost after a fire or severe weather damage, it never hurts to have our lab team take a look.

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