Fire Damage Data Recovery

In May 2017, we were given a severely burnt Apple MacBook Pro. Our customer informed us that the device had been in a car during a fire.

The damage was extensive, with the top cover, bottom cover, keyboard, and display all completely charred. The condition was so severe that even the screws on the bottom cover were barely visible.

Nevertheless, we extracted the drive and meticulously cleaned it until it was accessible.

We successfully recovered 100% of our customer’s data for just $300.

Fire Damage on a MacBook Pro Recovered by $300 Dollar Data Recovery

“Sadly the hard drive [started] to catch on fire, smoke was coming out of its cable port… I had no hopes…but they were able to recover 100% of the data.” –Francesco

This hard drive was in a house fire.

When this hard drive arrived, we were not overly optimistic, but we had hope. Fire damage data recovery depends on whether the platters and ROM chip were affected by the heat and flames.

The cover was completely melted with no discernible text.

The PCB was burnt, but we could clean it well enough to read the unique information from the ROM chip. We then moved this information to a donor PCB.

After being inspected in our cleanroom, the platters were found to be unscathed despite the drive’s outer appearance.

We cloned all but a few sectors on this hard drive and recovered all the data!