nail varnished harddrive

[drivers]

Is there any way of rescuing a harddrive which has had nail varnish spilt on to its circuit board, as I need the data on it.

[kato2274]

Is there any way of rescuing a harddrive which has had nail varnish spilt on to its circuit board, as I need the data on it.

I guess it depends on how bad you need the data on it and how much you're willing to spend in experimentation.

1st option I would try would be to try and find an identical drive and swap the circut boards.

if you get your data, then you may be able to remove the bad circut board, remove the varnish from it and attach it to the new drive and RMA it for replacement. but if not, you're only out probably about $100 bucks or so.

the other option is data recovery specialists. but you're looking at least a grand if not more.

[3fingersalute]

Does the drive spin up at all? If not, you may get lucky if you can another hd of the same make, model and revision #, and swap circuit boards (I did this before with a Western Digital drive that had a burned IC on the board).

Other than that, if its not spinning, your only other option is a data recovery company, which tends to be quite expensive, so you'll need to decide how valuable that data is. What brand is the drive?

[3fingersalute]

Ooops - didn't type that quite fast enough!

[gazzak]

I have to ask...

How did you spill nail varnish on a hard disk PCB???

[Platypus]

How did you spill nail varnish on a hard disk PCB???

Was it going at the time? I wouldn't have expected nail varnish to cause any problem once it was dry. As an electronics technician I've often used nail varnish as a sealer/cover paint/thread lock on circuit boards. As far as I know it's non-conductive and non-corrosive once it's dried.

[kato2274]

Was it going at the time? I wouldn't have expected nail varnish to cause any problem once it was dry. As an electronics technician I've often used nail varnish as a sealer/cover paint/thread lock on circuit boards. As far as I know it's non-conductive and non-corrosive once it's dried.

I was actually thinking that too.

[hermankamp]

I agree with Platypus
once the nail varnish is dry Shouldnt affact the drive at all ;unless it has sparkles in it the sparkles are usually metal flake try washing off with acetone and blowing off with compressed air if under IC chips.

Herman k