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machoman
Joined: 11 Jul 2007
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 Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:33 am Post subject: water spilled on my external hard drive |
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| is it salvage-able? i let it dry, tried to plug it back in, i can hear some noise, but after a few seconds, it dies down and then nothing. |
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languistic
Joined: 25 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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"Water spilled" says...not enough.
Where did the water spill? How much was "spilled"? Did it get inside (which is tough, seeing as HDDs are air tight)? What kind of HDD...enclosure? 2.5"? 3.5"? ESata or USB...?
Please tell me you took it apart and let it dry/dried it out as best you could before you plugged it in. it may have fried the logic board if you didn't. |
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machoman
Joined: 11 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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okay, i left out some important information because it's a bit shameful...... the hard drive is a seagate 1 terabyte harddrive. the cover was taken off and a wine glass full of water was thrown on the hard drive, exposed. i took it apart, tried to let it dry.
even if it is fried, is the information retrievable? is it possible to take it to a service center? thanks btw. |
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excaza
Joined: 27 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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If you turned it on while it was still wet, you may have fried it completely. Put it in a bowl of rice and leave it for a few days, then try again. If it doesn't work, then you're pretty much out of luck.
Sorry mate  |
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languistic
Joined: 25 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 2:06 am Post subject: |
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| machoman wrote: |
okay, i left out some important information because it's a bit shameful...... the hard drive is a seagate 1 terabyte harddrive. the cover was taken off and a wine glass full of water was thrown on the hard drive, exposed. i took it apart, tried to let it dry.
even if it is fried, is the information retrievable? is it possible to take it to a service center? thanks btw. |
If the data means that much to you, then they probably can do something to help you, but it won't be cheap. They can maybe install a new logic board to get it running again, but I am not 100% sure. I totally understand the pain of losing a TB of data; it recently almost happened to me, but as I said, data retrieval is costly and whatever was on there will most certainly be seen by others; if it was highly sensitive, then make your choice.
As the above poster said, put it in some rice for a few days and try it again, but if you did switch it on wet or it was running at the time, then your options are few. |
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winterfall
Joined: 21 May 2009
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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| excaza wrote: |
If you turned it on while it was still wet, you may have fried it completely. Put it in a bowl of rice and leave it for a few days, then try again. If it doesn't work, then you're pretty much out of luck.
Sorry mate |
That's how I wrecked my ipod. Electronics need about 4-5 days in direct sunlight to completely dry. |
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spanky1off
Joined: 21 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Its amazing how many spilled liquids occur whilst 'browsing' |
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orosee
Joined: 07 Mar 2008
Location: Hannam-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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| excaza wrote: |
If you turned it on while it was still wet, you may have fried it completely. Put it in a bowl of rice and leave it for a few days, then try again. If it doesn't work, then you're pretty much out of luck.
Sorry mate |
I'm not sure if it's obvious but certainly you meant dry, not cooked rice 
I was lucky in a way that when I moved house this August on the one day with a torrential downpour, my cheapo moving guys managed to have all my 15 1TB external drives standing in half an inch of rain water 
Nothing critical to my survival, just 3 years' worth (>2,500) of downloaded 1080p movies... 
I was just lucky not to cry on my drives, because tears contain salt which is even more harmful to electronics than rain water.
I waited until September - close to 4 weeks - before testing the drives. None of them had a malfunction, those were tha large Freeagent drives and apparently the bottom inch/foot is all heat sink and no electronics.
So far we have two obvious lessons: careful with liquids near electronics and don't choose the cheapest bidder (especially when related to the person you were asking for advice). |
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machoman
Joined: 11 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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okay.... i'm back with another hard drive question. i have two. the 1 terabyte one, water was poured on it.
the other 500gig one was thrown on the floor. the 500gb one worked. it was my F: drive, but after the throw, it switched to G:. don't know why.
it worked for a while, then it said i needed to reformat it. i opened it up, took it apart and i pulled the hard drive out of the board and reconnected it. after that, it worked again.
now, it's saying the same thing~ that i need to format it. i tried to do what i did before, but to no avail.... any ideas??? |
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Italy37612
Joined: 25 Jan 2010
Location: Somewhere
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| Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Water thrown on one, the other one tossed on the floor... Someone get in a tiff with the Mrs. eh? |
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machoman
Joined: 11 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Italy37612 wrote: |
| Water thrown on one, the other one tossed on the floor... Someone get in a tiff with the Mrs. eh? |
haha... YES! you guessed it. T_T |
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