If you intend to discard your hard drive with personal or professional information that is no longer important, but you do not want to risk the access of third parties, however, burning is not the best solution.
If the fire does not reach the media, better known as “disc platters” – which by the way, are built in a sealed environment and well protected within the HD – data can still be recovered, whereas if these dishes are struck by fire and suffer physical changes in their surface such as dilations or deformations, information that is stored in them magnetically will be destroyed, so the chances of data recovery are almost zero.
Data recovery in a burned-out HD is a very difficult and labor-intensive process, because in most cases the data recovery company needs to build a HD again. The big problem is that, because the disk is burned, it becomes difficult to identify the components needed for the construction – it needs to be really the same. The HD stamp says a lot about your model and its manufacturing and it is basically through it that companies are based to do all the identification of parts and the like. However, when burned, this label is usually erased.
In computing, the word “burn” is not necessarily related to fire. There are cases where the technician says: your HD is burnt and that means that what “burned” is the logical circuit that controls the reading and storage of HD data. In these cases it is necessary to replace this logic board with a new one.
As we said, data recovery, especially on burned-out HDDs, is a very complex job. Regardless of the problem of your HD, be it logical or physical, burns caused by fire or even if it simply stopped working and you have no idea what happened – especially in this case – it is very important to not retrieve data and not perform self-directed interventions or use any program downloaded on the internet.
The New York RAID array data recovery service constantly invests in infrastructure and innovative technologies in order to increasingly raise the level of guarantee of recovery of its customers’ data, in addition, has already recovered several HDs that suffered serious physical and logical burns. So if your HD has problems, contact us and talk to a technician, it will certainly clarify your doubts and tell you the best solution.