WeatherMan
Active Member
Hi guys, well the time has finally come, after all these months of me carrying my storage drive in my bag between houses that an accident has happened.
To cut a long story short the strap on my bag broke, a can of cider split/exploded in the bag and covered the drive in all its great wetness. I'm not sure how much liquid went over the drive but the bag ended up with a puddle in the bottom and the can size was 500ml.
This was on Monday, today is Thursday night, I've let the drive sit around and not touched it since, it's dried out a lot but is still very sticky, and I think there is some residue on the PCB itself.
I'm not very confident I'll be be able to recover the contents of the drive, but I do want to try, as it has 5+ years of data on it, and there are no back ups. Whats the best way to proceed?
I was thinking remove the PCB, clean it down with isopropyl alcohol and stick the board + drive in rice for about a week to soak up any excess moisture, if anyone has a better alternative please let me know.
I've heard not to use a hairdryer and I've not got any dehumidifying equipment
Thanks
To cut a long story short the strap on my bag broke, a can of cider split/exploded in the bag and covered the drive in all its great wetness. I'm not sure how much liquid went over the drive but the bag ended up with a puddle in the bottom and the can size was 500ml.
This was on Monday, today is Thursday night, I've let the drive sit around and not touched it since, it's dried out a lot but is still very sticky, and I think there is some residue on the PCB itself.
I'm not very confident I'll be be able to recover the contents of the drive, but I do want to try, as it has 5+ years of data on it, and there are no back ups. Whats the best way to proceed?
I was thinking remove the PCB, clean it down with isopropyl alcohol and stick the board + drive in rice for about a week to soak up any excess moisture, if anyone has a better alternative please let me know.
I've heard not to use a hairdryer and I've not got any dehumidifying equipment
Thanks