Sadly, DIY process will not work in physical damaged hard drive recovery. As it’s not an issue related to logical, as soon you notice your hard drive stop working, you should stop using it. The owner most like to instruct a professional data recovery center.

There are some steps that you can follow immediately after your hard drive fall into the water.

• Wipe the hard drive gently with paper towel.
• Do not attempt to plug in the drive.
• Do not try to dry the hard drive with hair dryer or in the sun.
• Place the hard drive in the airtight plastic bag.
• Let the drive dry itself overnight.

If this doesn’t work, then you should search for best recovery center. Sayprint Data Recovery has clean lab with team of professional, and we are experts in this field.

Our professional trained team of engineers can repair damaged hard drive, but it is not advisory to use the repair hard drive. Repair hard drive can again get corrupted. So it’s better you take the backup from repair hard drive, throw it aside.

Yes, a broken hard drive can be fixed, but it should not be reused again. However, a repaired HDD should not be reused, but rather, have its contents recovered immediately and then should be discarded as it cannot be trusted to work into the future.

If the broken hard drive needs advance recovery tools, so the cost will be higher. If the hard drive is completely damaged due to water lodge or mishandling then the average cost would be around Rs.5000 to Rs. 30000.