[Cialug] Drive recovery

L. V. Lammert lvl at omnitec.net
Fri Nov 10 00:00:02 UTC 2017


On Thu, 9 Nov 2017, David Champion wrote:

> Hard drives are not really sealed watertight. Some of them have a smallvent hole with some sort of filter or membrane behind it, will be labelled"Do not block this hole" or something like that.
> I've fixed a couple of laptops that had water in them - I think in bothcases I had to replace the motherboard, but the RAM and HD and screen wereOK.
> -dc
>
Excellent - thanks!

	Lee


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