My hard drive caught on fire.
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Wellander
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10 Feb, 2003 2:56 pm My hard drive caught on fire. [sdp=7627]  
Hi,
I want to say that my hard drive disk caaugth on file and does not wrok I want know if I throw it away will some boby be able to get info off it still.
It is not severe but It does not work Iis there a way that somebody to get the info off of it.
Thank You.

Edit: subject edited by Antony.

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10 Feb, 2003 7:22 pm [sdp=7643]  
The probable answer...most likely it can still be read from. But hey, draw your own conclusions:

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11 Feb, 2003 4:49 pm [sdp=7687]  
Bryan,

I asked a friend who builds PC's about this, whether or not it was even possible for a hard drive to catch fire. He has given me his permission to quote his response verbatim (word for word), here.

Quote:

I can't for the life of me visualize what in or on a hard drive could catch
on fire. So that's the first thing. I don't see it possible. Next is the
data. Since hard drives have to be serviced in a clean room with techs
wearing those imitation astronaut outfits, if the hard disk is opened out of
that perfect environment it is immediately rendered JUNK.

You probably already suspected this but I see your asking as being thorough.

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11 Feb, 2003 7:46 pm [sdp=7695]  
For the record, I wasn't suggesting any Bubba from Arkansas could pull it out of a garbage can, pop it into his computer and read off of it Wink

But I think you would probably be amazed what professional data recovery experts who charge thousands of dollars can recover from totally hoses drives.

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