Did they extract it and re-bottle it from the keyboard? Bet it tasted of vinegar...

I'd fancy my chances of getting data back after someone spilled red wine over a keyboard. Especially a desktop pc.

How does trashing a *keyboard* qualify as one of the top 10 *data* recovery disasters?

Paris because. Just because.

As in: "My dog set fire to my homework"?

Did they pay you much for it?

Most of the above scenarios, wine, fire, flood wouldn't have caused much damage a good drying out wouldn't have cured. I am not impressed.

Do they only get 10 jobs a year or something.. some of these are really scrapping the barrel, number 6 scratched DVD could probably have been fixed with a tube of toothpaste and a wet finger! Would have thought they could have come up with something a bit more exciting...

Despite what you might hear to the contrary, a bottle of wine is very very unlikely to cause damage to your data when poured over the keyboard - or anywhere else for that matter.

Funny how the last 3 items lacked the detail of the first seven; perchance someone made them up to an even 10?

Great free advertising for company concerned and not news.

> Bottle of wine spilled over keyboard.

They can operate a funnel and a sieve as well as data recovery tools?

'Bottle of wine spilled over keyboard..', 'Scratched DVD ..' - wow, hold the front page, data recovery firm recovers data from a scratched DVD! Whoulda thunk it.

The first one was good. After that it's lame and seems like just an excuse to promote Datalabs.

Surely, they just, you know.... plugged a new one in???!?

how much did DiskLabs pay for this "article" then?

I work for Headland Media, maybe I coukd think up something interesting about our maritime news services that could qualify as a "news story".

I'll get my coat ...

CCTV cameras store the data locally? How do they retrieve it? I thought the images would have been stored at the monitoring centre and not in the camera itself. Seems stupid to me.

I'm impressed they could remove the data after the fire/ falling through the floor.

Bofh might need a new way to destroy his tracks.

will be the villain best friend!

/coat -fast

... maybe they can accept this challenge:

http://16systems.com/zero/index.html

A normal fully functioning drive overwritten with 0s

Not exactly hard to do.

Getting back data from an accidentally damaged drive is one thing - a criminal with a bit of tech savvy OTOH.

Mind you a disaster recovery firm who can recover data from a PC after spilling wine on the keyboard. Wow! They must be good.

"Pulling data from a mobile phone that had been smashed into 11 pieces"

11? That's not exactly 'smashed' in my book; What's the betting 10 of those pieces were the screen?

"Scratched DVD made by a father of his daughter’s birth. "

But how was it scratched? Most scratches are easy to recover.

"Recovery of data from a RAID server of an aircraft components distribution firm. The kit fell through the floor during a huge fire. The hard disk drives were delivered to Disklabs Data Recovery, still smelling of burning electrics, plastic and water from the fire service."

The smell of water? I hear the smell is what kills the electrics! Replaced logic board; job done.

"Bottle of wine spilled over keyboard."

Keyboard does not necessitate data recovery. Orange juice is far worse, lager is more common.

Seriously though, if that's all they can find to mention they can't have been very busy for the last year!!!

Wow. Not much going on in the world of data recovery, is there?

One would expect a few more difficult things, like recovering data from the hard drive(s) of a hacker that had been USDoD wiped by a dedicated wiper upon the entry to his flat by some Federal task force ... or recovering data from the platters (all that remained) of a government laptop hard drive that had been stolen and then broken into its composite pieces by someone intent on destroying any evidence that they had obtained the unit.

I mean ... wine on a keyboard? What's to recover?

A company and 100 jobs at risk, and no one thought to do backups?? Keeps the data recovery companies happy, I guess.

Or is there more than a hint of BofH and PFY activity in that list?

still smelling of burning electrics, plastic and water from the fire service....

they're using scented water for putting out fires these days then ?

Its pretty hard to tell from the way its written. Please don't take this the wrong way.......

Stop shilling Reg. We're not as green as we are cabbage looking.

"Incriminated data pulled from the hard disc of a suspected paedophile, after the kit was thrown at arresting police"

WTF If your a god damn kiddie fiddler WTF are you doing throing the god damn evidence of your crime AT THE FUCKING POLICE??

"Hey John you think this computer we just got lobbed at us has pictures and videos on it? Lets find out since the suspect apparently doesnt want it"

# Pulling data from a mobile phone that had been smashed into 11 pieces

Now this one has me impressed, some serious reconstruction going on there.

/Paris because even shes wondering about the first one.

10 out of 10 for good taste I say!

www.smackberry.co.uk explains why

"...a lot more interersting cases (say a mouse hit with a WMD) "

So that would be a Weapon of Mouse Destruction, then?

...mine's the one with pages of lame jokes shoved in the pockets.

Was it your keyboard John ?

It looks to my "data recovery expert"'s eyes, like several bottles of wine, judging by the state of your "article" today.

Xmess excess I suppose.

PS please buy from me too @ www.crackpots.org.uk

The data in a mobile phone are saved in a Flash memory (in very seldom case there are two on the board and/or a mobile storage device is offered) anyway - it is possible to desolder

the Flash from the board (or piece of the board), "reball"

and place into a socket to have access to the data with a proper interface.

Unless the memory is broken into two pieces, i.e. the die of the memory is broken,

it is not a problem for an average lab

You don't need fancy degaussers, just a set of Torx screwdrivers. Open the case (usually T9 screws, IIRC, a few are hidden under labels) and remove the platters from the spindle. Take one of the powerful magnets that control the motion of the armature and wipe it across the platters. That will re-align the magnetic fields nicely. Then give it a good scrubbing with #4 steel wool, which will do horrors to the platter surfaces.

Incidentally, the platters are extremely flat and nearly perfect mirrors, which makes them useful in optics experiments. I've bounced lasers off them and been unable to see where the beam hits the surface - there's no light scattering.