Comments on: Hurricane Katrina Revisited Water Damaged Hard Drive Recovery

By: Nixon Go Co

Nixon Go Co — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:58:57 +0000

I would like to know how much it would cost including shipping to have the data recovered from my external hard drive. Just like Norman. We were also hit by Typhoon Ondoy in the Philippines. I have tried to have the data recovered here but only around 25 % was recovered.

By: Norman P. Aquino

Norman P. Aquino — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:13:24 +0000

Hi, I am still reeling from the devastation brought by typhoon Ondoy in the Philippines just days ago. My place was one of those badly hit. Water reached the 2nd floor of the apartmment I was renting and I was away when it happened.

I lost everything, including all my photos. I have 7 external hard drives that were submerged in water (fresh) for more than a day.

i would be interested in having data (mostly landscape photos from various trips since 2005) recovered from my 1-terabyte hard drive, which contains a backup of some of my photos. I have taken the drive out of the external casing. There is water inside.

But before I send it in, it would help a lot to know how much it would cost. I don’t want to spend on shipping when I won’t be able to afford the final price later. I am writing this from my cell phone. Thank you very much, and please pray for us.

By: Michael Stankard

Michael Stankard — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:36:01 +0000

Heather,

No, you aren’t crazy, we have recovered some pretty badly damaged hard drives that have been in floods or in fires. The best thing to do is to give us a call at 866-438-6932 on Monday and talk to one of tech’s about the best way to ship it to us. We STILL give major discounts to people who were effected by Katrina and our services are no data – no charge so you wouldn’t pay anything anyway in the unlikely chance we can’t recover your data.

By: Heather

Heather — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:47:51 +0000

I have a hard drive from my old Gateway PC that was involved in Hurricane Katrina… yes I know three years later I have just come across the drive and I figured I would see what I could find on Google. Now I know my odds of ever recovering anything off of it are one in a million but it does contain many family digital pictures which are priceless to me so I figured it wouldn’t hurt to write. If there is any interest/chance that I might be able to one day recover the pictures that I lost I would be interested in mailing it out to your company. If you don’t think I’m completely crazy – please let me know what the next step would be.

Thank you very much.

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By: Davedata99

Davedata99 — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:00:29 +0000

Very impressive, I have witnessed the extent of damage salt water can do to electronics. Hard drive recovery from a flooded hard drive is very hard to pull off, especially after it has been sitting all this time. Well done