Our house flooded badly Sunday wrecking our whole downstairs and we’ll have to move out for up to 12 months.
But never mind that LOL. PC box on the rug had about 5-6 inches of water in it for a short time. All drained and dry and have had delivered (again since this past February) a new power supply which clearly is toast as the PC was on asleep and sits on the very bottom of the case. Been in touch with a recommended data recovery firm and the guy was optimistic no data will be lost but also I could maybe get it all back running myself. I have in the box in ascending order a 250g Samsung SSD, another of the same and at the top of the stack a Seagate 1tr mechanical hard drive. One of the SSD’s is the C/boot/W7 OS drive. The other SSD and HDD have all my FS stuff on them. I think all were briefly soaked. So this kind fellow said what I need to do is open the SSD’s to check if they had been wet or there was residue (river silt) and then I think clean carefully the contacts. Ditto on the PCB of the HDD. That way the drive electronics should not fail on power up. Then I could safely connect the new PSU and see if she will boot and I can see the drives. Problem is the Samsung SSD’s need a weird “pentalobe” screwdriver and I get scant info what size it should be - either a 1.2mm or 1.5mm - could be just a typo in what I found Googling.
Grateful if anyone has done this and opinions generally. I offered to send all three drives to him to recover the data but he said no, that shouldn’t be necessary. I could not continue while on the phone with him as I didn’t have the right tools to proceed.
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