PeterStoba
18-05-08, 19:37
I knew the folks at Ontrack were good at recovering data from failed drives but they managed to recover 99% of the data from a hard drive that was on board the space shuttle Columbia when it disintegrated on re-entry back in 2003. It took these guys four and a half years to complete the job. By the way, it was a Seagate drive for those of you wondering and was 8 years old at the time of the crash.
Edwards said the circuit board on the bottom of the drive was "burned almost beyond recognition" and that all of its components had fallen off. Every piece of plastic on the model ST9385AG hard drive melted, he noted, and all the electronic chips inside had burned and come loose.
The article goes on to say:
Before recovery could begin, a great deal of dirt and other debris had to be cleaned from the storage device. A rubber seal at the top of the hard drive was completely burned off enabling dirt and charred elements to enter the casing. Everything but the drive's platters were virtually unusable, remarked Edwards.
"The heads were bent and they were touching where they shouldn't have, so we had to carefully cut and bend metal away from the platters to get them out without causing more damage," said Edwards.
The article can be found here (http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9083718&intsrc=news_ts_head).
Absoloutely amazing
Edwards said the circuit board on the bottom of the drive was "burned almost beyond recognition" and that all of its components had fallen off. Every piece of plastic on the model ST9385AG hard drive melted, he noted, and all the electronic chips inside had burned and come loose.
The article goes on to say:
Before recovery could begin, a great deal of dirt and other debris had to be cleaned from the storage device. A rubber seal at the top of the hard drive was completely burned off enabling dirt and charred elements to enter the casing. Everything but the drive's platters were virtually unusable, remarked Edwards.
"The heads were bent and they were touching where they shouldn't have, so we had to carefully cut and bend metal away from the platters to get them out without causing more damage," said Edwards.
The article can be found here (http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9083718&intsrc=news_ts_head).
Absoloutely amazing