Here are a collection of some of the most strange events that have led straight to the person involved needing data recovery. Please note that no names have been used solely to protect the innocent. Read more and discover a few faves from the past couple of years.
Stupid Feline
A design student had left her Mac-book charging on the lounge floor for a few hours, her kitten mistook the keyboard as litter tray.
Chopper Hop
Workers of a global telecomms company were working against time while aboard a helicopter when they accidentally dropped their laptop.
Gone Bananas
An IT specialist left the remains of his banana peel on top of an external drive. The contents soon oozed, seeped into the drive and damaged company data.
Butchered
The drive of a butcher shop crashed and sent it in for recovery, packed in Foam, with the remains of some cured ham.
Shampoo Job
On a flight, a passenger packed his laptop PC into his main bags along with his toiletries. The shampoo leaked, right into the laptop’s hard drive and washed the data away.
Sock Shocks
What was supposed to be a minor mend job became an important one when a customer shipped his drive up in 2 socks which, of course, did not offer best of protection during shipping.
Rescue Mishap
After a small fire broke out in the research office of a UK university. Well-intentioned firemen assertively attacked with water, soaking all of the computers and servers in the process…
Goodness Greases!
A college professor asserted he heard his drive squeaking. He opened it and sprayed it with lubricant. The drive stopped squeaking, and subsequently ceased working as well.
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