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> OT: BAM!, brother's computer died out of nowhere.
bd1308
post Jan 22 2006, 08:56 PM
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so i was downstairs setting the parents up with a nicer DVD player when my mom comes down the stairs yelling "something popped and the upstairs smells like burnt metal"....

go upstairs and sure enough it smells like bad burning metal or something.

well I find the smell source, unplug it and bring it to the O.R.

a capicitor blew apart and a coil desoldered itself from the power supply board (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/ohmy.gif)

it was "protected" behind a surge protector, so i'm goign to call the surge people tomorrow....has anyone ever done this before?

his 85 dollar 80GB drive is also damaged....

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post Jan 22 2006, 11:05 PM
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in the right conditions, you can get the data off of the raw platters, yes.

The key is having duplicate hardware...

I like your idea better.

If the data is really worth something, it does not cost much to send it to a lab and they will send back a CD in a few days...

I have done it, back when it cost like 1000 dollar for a drive to get the data...

Nowadays, computer forensics has come a long long way, and there are alot more guys out there, so the prices have come down quite a bit.

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