Does 8 days maybe more in the water with power applied qualify for a lost cause? My neighbors told me that water started trickling out my front door on Saturday afternoon, I did not return from vacation until Monday a little over 8 days later in the early AM. This year when I go on vacation, I'm turning off the gas and water before I leave if my son is away on his vacation!
The two drives hit by lightning most likely would not have recovered the boards were cooked with chips blowing their tops, most likely the heads were fried also. The main item that I lost was my emails that I had saved with useful information, there were 10K's of them, I did not have DVD backups of them unlike other files and data. The cases were fine and was the only thing that survived, all else, power supplies, motherboards, controllers and drives were cooked. It was a interesting period, I lost my main PC to flooding while I was on vacation I also lost several thousand dollars in ruined cameras and had a huge mess to clean up, I was not worried about my data since the other two PC's contained copies of everything. Then one night I was woken up by a huge flash of lightning, and my UPS making a loud noise, I went back to sleep, in the AM the PC's would not turn on and the UPS showed no lights, after removing the covers I found the UPS, and two PC's were literally cooked. I consider myself fortunate since the PC's and UPS were about one foot away from my bed. Interestingly, my TS-930 that was turned on in the same room suffered no damage that I can discern. The SDR-1000 was about to be moved so it was disconnected from everything so no damage there. At 03:35 PM 1/24/2007, Jim Lux wrote: >At 12:46 PM 1/24/2007, kd5nwa wrote: >>I backup important documents to a DVD, I used to back up to two other >>PC's until in a 3 week period I lost all three PC's with no hope of >>data recovery. One was damaged by flooding the other two were cooked >>by lightning with the Hard Drives getting fried along with everything else. > > >Depending on how important the data is, and how hard you want to >work to get it back, it's likely that it's still ok on the >platters. If you have an identical drive that still works, you can >swap the drive into the electronics. Not a panacea (since there are >calibration constants stored in EEPROM or Flash on most modern >controllers) but it might work. > >Also, I've had quite a few pieces of electronics flooded, including >hard disk drives, and recoverable. Rinse thoroughly in distilled >water and dry slowly. The key is whether there was significant >power applied while it was flooded, and even then, often there isn't >a problem, as long as nothing got corroded. Seawater is another story. > >Most recently, my daughter's SanDisk MP3 player went through the >washing machine without ill effects, caught it before going into the >dryer, dried it out for a day in the sun, and it seemed to come >alive again without a problem. Cecil Bayona KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com 'Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.' _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/
