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Electronics and water (and fire) don't mix

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Electronics and water (and fire) don't mix. That's what you would think. Especially if you wanted to preserve some data off the hard drive of a computer afflicted by flames and liquid...

Take a look at this tongue-in-cheek video from our sister-site, ComputerWeekly.com, and its attempt to beat the challenge of some data recovery experts... View the hard drive data recovery video

The company in question, one Kroll Ontrack, claims to have a pretty good track record of recovering data from the most severe scenarios. For example, in this podcast with MD Jeff Pederson, it says it has recovered data from a hard disc that was on the fateful Columbia space shuttle, which exploded in 2003.

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