How to recover files from a damaged hard drive? Repair the water damage

Your hard drive or external hard drive may occasionally have a water damage, and what should you do to repair the hard drive water damage?

If you do not want to lose your data on this external hard drive or damage the drive, you should repair it as soon as possible. The sooner you take measures, the less damage will on the hard drive. You should take measures as soon as possible to protect the water damage.

How to repair the water damage?

First, you need to power down the hard drive and plug it out at the first time it get wet. Disconnect the hard drive after a water damage is an effective way to prevent it from further damage.

If your hard drive gets a water damage, you are prohibited to use a hair dryer to dry out the hard drive. If you use a hair dryer, the heat will cause more damage on the hard drive. The correct way is to let the hard drive dry out on its own.

And you should not open the protective case of the hard drive. The protective case of hard drive is a necessary cover to prevent the hard drive from dust damage.

Second, if the hard drive were wet by dirty water, you should wash it with fresh water. And then you can let the hard drive dry out on its own.

Third, once your hard drive has dried out, you can plug it in to your computer to know if it can be recognized by computer and if you can access to your files on this drive. And if you have important data on the hard drive, you’d better take it to the data recovery specialist for a repair.

If you can access all the files on your hard drive, you should back up them first. Because, as your hard drive has a water damage, you cannot know when it will fail.

If the hard drive has no power and cannot be recognized by computer, you should ask the professional data recovery specialist to help you. They will try to repair it and help you to retrieve your lost files.

Try to repair by yourself is a risky thing. The improper operation will cause more damage on the hard drive. To avoid such kind of hard drive damage, you should be careful enough to avoid such kind of damage. Back up your files regularly is the best way to prevent unexpected data loss.

How to retrieve files from hard drive?

If you have accidentally deleted your files or format your hard drive partition, you should use the data recovery software as soon as possible to reduce the data loss.