Data Recovery Manchester – Manchester Data Recovery Services

VenSys Limited have proved that microwaving a USB memory stick doesn’t mean the device is unrecoverable. One day we received two devices that were left in a microwave by a customer as an anti theft measure. The sticks were left separate to the company laptop to ensure that even if the laptop was stolen the data on the sticks wouldn’t be taken with it.

Not a bad idea as a security precaution BUT

Disaster struck, when the customers partner came down in the morning and turned on the microwave to heat up the morning bottle for the baby. The very  last thing you would expect is to have electronic equipment in an oven and subsequently the drives got “cooked ” as well

One of the devices was a Kingston Data Traveler device with a plastic outer casing and despite melting of the plastic around the internal board and the chip appearing to sustain a slight level of damage the device was recovered.

VenSys have yet again proved that regardless of what happens Flash and other portable storage media are nearly always recoverable. VenSys Ltd recently received a water damaged USB memory stick that had been placed into a shirt pocket and forgotten. Subsequently it was washed and with the device appearing completely dead, when inserted into a USB port, the owner feared he had lost his part completed book (which was on the device) forever.

We assured him that, despite appearances, the device could be recovered by the use of exclusive technology - which proved to be the case. The recovery involved a read of the data chip rather than attempting any repairs to the board – which was rendered useless after it’s trip inside the washing machine.