How to Recover Data after Smoke Damages?

In general terms, smoke refers to the collection of solid or liquid gaseous components or particulates, emitted as the by-product of fires and other such events. Their particular properties are that they can float in air for a long interval of time and are quite smaller in width. These attributes make them appropriate to enter hard disk and hence damage its internals. But as a result, you can suffer a hard disk crash that necessitates the need of Data Recovery Services.

A hard disk is basically comprised of mechanical and electronic components and an air-filter to prevent the entrance of smoke like particles. Smoke particles are negligibly small in size and could break the prevention of this air filter. Moreover, the failure of air-filter could also result hard disk crash.

• Read/write head is the basic internal that floats over disk surface to read/write information. After smoke particles enter hard disk and settle down on its surface, it becomes tricky for read/write head to go over the surface. As a result, it might get stuck, resulting into head crash.
• Hard disk circuitry is also sensitive to these smoke particles. Since it is made of metal, smoke particles might react and corrode them.
• Smoke particles can also create short-circuits.

If you encounter hard disk failure due to any of the event described above, you should immediately turn off your system and replace the hard disk. Next, you should check the status of your backup and use it to restore the lost information. But if data cannot be restored using backup, consult Data Recovery Service technicians.

Hard Disk Recovery is the technical aid provided by experts to repair and recover data from a physically crashed drive. A failed hard disk is first scrutinized in Clean Room environment to determine the cause of failure, extent of damage and recovery possibilities. Based on these observation results, recovery technicians perform steps like replacing or repairing damaged internals, drive imaging, moving platters etc. Such services are provided in all kinds of hard disk damages, be it smoke damage, hard disk crash or natural disaster crash.